Abstract

The aim of this essay is to focus on the main characteristics of the philosophical studies at Pisa and Florence in the decades covering the mid-thirties to the mid-sixties of the 20th century. The first part of the essay, analyzing the most significant figures of the period, describes the differences of approach between Pisan and Florentine scholars, making reference also to traditional - though problematic - opposition between "philosophy" and "philology". The second part of the essay demonstrates how these differences were resolved, arriving at a point of complete dissolution, in the decade of the sixties, in the context of profound transformations of culture and society, both Tuscan and Italian.