Piero Gobetti (1901–1926) was an Italian journalist, intellectual, and anti-fascist.Mimmo Cangiano is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Davide Dalmas is an associate professor of Italian literature at the University of Turin.Sandro-Angelo de Thomasis is an assistant professor of liberal arts and modern languages at The Juilliard School.Marta Vicari works at the Centro studi Piero Gobetti and is currently pursing a master’s degree in gender studies and politics at the University of Roma Tre.

• PrefaceFire and Flame: Piero Gobetti Essayist and IntellectualWorks CitedPiero Gobetti: Liberalism, the Masses, and ConflictWorks CitedTranslator’s NoteBenedetto Croce and the Culture ClownsOur FaithA Survey of Political QuestionsSocialist ExperimentsToward a Concrete Political RealityIntermissionThe Italian RevolutionAn Address to the Collaborators of Energie NoveSoviet RussiaThe Revolutionary Crisis of Ottocento ItalyTrotsky.The Liberal ExperienceRevolution and DisciplineThe Tragedy of PolandCatholic SchoolsThe Ethical StateRisorgimento Studies: The Political Philosophy of Vittorio AlfieriI. Alfieri and Literary CriticismII. Machiavelli and the Nature of Alfieri’s PhilosophyIII. EpistemologyIV. An Anti-Catholic PolemicV. Anti-Monarchic PoliticsVI. The Morality and Metaphysics of LibertyVII. The New ReligionVIII. PoliticsAppendix: Tragedy as the Source of Alfieri’s Political ThoughtFor a Society of ÁpotiTactical QuestionsComing to Terms with Actual IdealismOur Political Culture

Piero Gobetti (1901–1926) was an Italian journalist, intellectual, and anti-fascist.Mimmo Cangiano is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Davide Dalmas is an associate professor of Italian literature at the University of Turin.Sandro-Angelo de Thomasis is an assistant professor of liberal arts and modern languages at The Juilliard School.Marta Vicari works at the Centro studi Piero Gobetti and is currently pursing a master’s degree in gender studies and politics at the University of Roma Tre.

• PrefaceFire and Flame: Piero Gobetti Essayist and IntellectualWorks CitedPiero Gobetti: Liberalism, the Masses, and ConflictWorks CitedTranslator’s NoteBenedetto Croce and the Culture ClownsOur FaithA Survey of Political QuestionsSocialist ExperimentsToward a Concrete Political RealityIntermissionThe Italian RevolutionAn Address to the Collaborators of Energie NoveSoviet RussiaThe Revolutionary Crisis of Ottocento ItalyTrotsky.The Liberal ExperienceRevolution and DisciplineThe Tragedy of PolandCatholic SchoolsThe Ethical StateRisorgimento Studies: The Political Philosophy of Vittorio AlfieriI. Alfieri and Literary CriticismII. Machiavelli and the Nature of Alfieri’s PhilosophyIII. EpistemologyIV. An Anti-Catholic PolemicV. Anti-Monarchic PoliticsVI. The Morality and Metaphysics of LibertyVII. The New ReligionVIII. PoliticsAppendix: Tragedy as the Source of Alfieri’s Political ThoughtFor a Society of ÁpotiTactical QuestionsComing to Terms with Actual IdealismOur Political Culture

Piero Gobetti (1901–1926) was an Italian journalist, intellectual, and anti-fascist.Mimmo Cangiano is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Davide Dalmas is an associate professor of Italian literature at the University of Turin.Sandro-Angelo de Thomasis is an assistant professor of liberal arts and modern languages at The Juilliard School.Marta Vicari works at the Centro studi Piero Gobetti and is currently pursing a master’s degree in gender studies and politics at the University of Roma Tre.

• PrefaceFire and Flame: Piero Gobetti Essayist and IntellectualWorks CitedPiero Gobetti: Liberalism, the Masses, and ConflictWorks CitedTranslator’s NoteBenedetto Croce and the Culture ClownsOur FaithA Survey of Political QuestionsSocialist ExperimentsToward a Concrete Political RealityIntermissionThe Italian RevolutionAn Address to the Collaborators of Energie NoveSoviet RussiaThe Revolutionary Crisis of Ottocento ItalyTrotsky.The Liberal ExperienceRevolution and DisciplineThe Tragedy of PolandCatholic SchoolsThe Ethical StateRisorgimento Studies: The Political Philosophy of Vittorio AlfieriI. Alfieri and Literary CriticismII. Machiavelli and the Nature of Alfieri’s PhilosophyIII. EpistemologyIV. An Anti-Catholic PolemicV. Anti-Monarchic PoliticsVI. The Morality and Metaphysics of LibertyVII. The New ReligionVIII. PoliticsAppendix: Tragedy as the Source of Alfieri’s Political ThoughtFor a Society of ÁpotiTactical QuestionsComing to Terms with Actual IdealismOur Political Culture