Giovanni Gentile and the Identification of res gestae with historia rerum gestarum

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Giovanni Gentile and the Identification of res gestae with historia rerum gestarum

Thursday 30 May 2024 is the 149th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Gentile (30 May 1875 - 15 April 1944), who was born in Castelvetrano, Italy on this date in 1875. He was assassinated by communist partisans on 15 April 1944.

Gentile was an idealist in the philosophy of history who arguably pursued idealism further than Collingwood, and so ran into some of the same problems that faced Collingwood, though in a more radical form. Gentile’s solution is likewise radical, involving the identification of res gestae with historia rerum gestarum. I take this identification of past actuality with its record as a springboard to consider epistemological problems of historical knowledge.

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