Benedetto Croce facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Benedetto Croce KOCI, COSML
Member of the Italian Senate
In office 8 May 1948 – 20 November 1952
Constituency	Naples
Member of the Italian Constituent Assembly
In office 25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948
Constituency	At-large
Minister of Public Education
In office 15 June 1920 – 4 July 1921
Prime Minister	Giovanni Giolitti
Preceded by	Andrea Torre
Succeeded by	Orso Mario Corbino
Member of the Italian Royal Senate
In office 26 January 1910 – 24 June 1946
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel III
Personal details
Born	(1866-02-25)25 February 1866 Pescasseroli, Italy
Died	20 November 1952(1952-11-20) (aged 86) Naples, Italy
Spouse(s)	Adele Rossi ​ ​ (m. 1914; died 1952)​
Domestic partner	Angelina Zampanelli ​ ​ (m. 1893; her d. 1913)​
Children	Elena, Alda, Silvia, Lidia
Alma mater	University of Naples
Profession	Historian, writer, landowner
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Philosophy career
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Neo-Hegelianism Classical liberalism Historism (storicismo)
Main interests	History, aesthetics, politics
Notable ideas	Liberism Aesthetic expressivism
Influences Giambattista Vico Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Johann Gottlieb Fichte Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Francesco de Sanctis Antonio Labriola Giovanni Gentile
Influenced Guido De Ruggiero Carlo Rosselli Giorgio Bassani Eugenio Montale Giovanni Gentile Antonio Gramsci Julius Evola Georges Sorel R. G. Collingwood José Carlos Mariátegui George Mosse

Benedetto Croce ( 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire free trade and had considerable influence on other Italian intellectuals, including both Marxist Antonio Gramsci and fascist Giovanni Gentile. Croce was President of PEN International, the worldwide writers' association, from 1949 until 1952. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times. He is also noted for his "major contributions to the rebirth of Italian democracy."