Vito Fazio Allmayer

Vito Fazio Allmayer (Palermo, 21 November 1885 – Pisa, 14 April 1958) was an Italian philosopher, pedagogist and university teacher.

He was born in Palermo from Giuseppe Emanuele Fazio, originary from Alcamo (ex garibaldian and working at the National Museum of Palermo) and from Felicina Allmayer, of German origins, but resident in Italy. Since a boy he was interested in the history of art; when he was 23 he graduated in Jurisprudence, but as he was fond of philosophy, he soon started the philosophical studies and attended the philosophical library of Palermo, where he met Giovanni Gentile.

In 1910 Allmayer graduated in philosophy and started his career as teacher: in 1914 he moved to the liceo "Umberto I" in Palermo, where he started his rich essaystic production that made him famous in Italy.

His career continued in Rome; soon after the fall of Fascism, in November 1943, Vito Fazio Allmayer was suspended from teaching and reintegrated after the end of war.

After a difficult period of his life, in the Fifties he resumed his multifarious activity of essayst and critic, besides teaching.

In 1915 he had married Concettina Carta, whom he had three children with. After being widowed in 1953 he remarried Bruna Boldrini, who has been among Fazio’s greatest critics and promoted a complete edition of his works (I-XXII, Firenze 1969–1991).

Allmayer, who had had a heart stroke three years before, died in Pisa in 1958.

The end of Positivism, and the friendship with Gentile, took him to an ideological engagement in favour of Actual idealism that seemed it would take a cultural and civil renovation; according to Actual idealism it was the act of thinking as perception, and not creative thought as imagination, which defines reality.

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