PART ONE: Introduction A Strange History (Bobbio I) Idealism and Sensism (Rosmini I) Philosophies Imported and Contested (Galluppi I) Experience and Ideology (Galluppi II) Restoration and Reaction (Rosmini II) The Mother Idea (Rosmini III) Primacy (Gioberti I) The Ideal Formula (Gioberti II) A Natural Method (Mamiani) Revolution and Recirculation (Spaventa) Facts and Laws (Villari) Real and Ideal (De Sanctis) Resurgence (Fiorentino and Florenzi Waddington) Matter and Idea (Labriola) No Speculative Movement (Barzellotti) A Revelation (Croce I) History Under Art (Croce II) What is Distinct? (Croce III) What is Living? (Croce IV) What is Dead? (Croce V) Materialism (Gentile I) Idealism (Gentile II) Actualism (Gentile III) Manifestos (Croce and Gentile) Common Sense and Good Sense (Gramsci I) The Religion of Liberty (Croce VI) Philosophy in Prison (Gramsci II) Still a Strange History (Bobbio II) PART TWO: Translations Galluppi, Elements Rosmini, A Sketch Gioberti, Primacy Gioberti, The Ideal Formula Mamiani, Renewal Spaventa, Italian Philosophy Villari, Positive Philosophy De Sanctis, Realism De Sanctis, The Ideal Florenzi Waddington, Pantheism I Florenzi Waddington, Pantheism II Fiorentino, Vico and Kant Fiorentino, Positivism Labriola, Materialism Croce, The Concept of Art Croce, Logic Croce, The Philosophy of Hegel Gentile, Praxis Gentile, Idealism Gentile, The Act of Thinking Gentile, Actual Idealism Manifesto I Manifesto II Gramsci, Introduction to Philosophy Croce, Liberty Gramsci, Letters.