Augusto Conti (December 6, 1822 – March 6, 1905) was an Italian philosopher and academic.

[4] He studied in Siena and Pisa;[3] at university he assaulted a professor whom he considered reactionary.

[1] On March 31, 1869, for his literary and scientific merits, he was called to sit in the College of Residents of the Accademia della Crusca; later he covered the Archconsulate several times.

[1][3] He was the philosopher of beauty, who defined being between the true and the good, and connected them as the means between the beginning and the end.

[1] In Florence, he was for a long time high councilor of public education and collaborated with the architect Emilio De Fabris for the decoration of the facade of Santa Maria del Fiore using iconographic symbolism to represent the greatness of Christianity and the meaning of the Virgin Mary.