«La circolazione del pensiero europeo» in Silvio e Bertrando Spaventa

The idea of the «circulation of European thought» can be found in a certain way in the thought of both Silvio and Bertrando Spaventa. Since the 1840s Silvio has been critical of the idea that modern thought would be absent in Italy because of the lack of religious Reform, while at the same time identifying the idea of a mobility of European thought. Bertrando, instead, in the ’50 elaborates the theory of circulation first criticizing contemporary Italian thought, then – in the ’60 – tracing a line of continuity of modern thought that goes from Bruno to Gioberti, passing through the milestone of Hegelian paths. Both the brothers read the XVI Century Italian philosophy like the beginning of the modern thought, that starting to move from Italy to Europe has modernized the whole European philosophy.