Il “puro disegno” di Liceo, da Gentile al Liceo Matematico

Abstract

Giovanni Gentile’s Liceo originates from a very specific idea: a development path centered on classical Western culture. The most important Italian mathematicians of the last hundred years have come from this school. Retracing the history of this idea, with its strong ideological assumptions and its limitations, the article frames the experience of "Mathematical Liceo" that has been developing in recent years.