[1] As a follower of Saitta and Giovanni Gentile, Cantimori began publishing in Vita Nova in 1927, in the direction of the actual idealism of Gentile, a theorist of Italian fascism; Vita Nova was set up by Leandro Arpinati, a National Fascist Party political leader.
[1] One important contact from these travels was Stanisław Kot in Kraków, a scholar of the Unitarians pioneers the Sozzinis, founders of Socinianism.
[7] After the end of World War II, Cantimori joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and made translations from Karl Marx.
He moved away from idealism as formulated by Gentile, and also in the sense of Benedetto Croce, and also rejected Marxist materialism.
[12] His first historical work "Il caso Boscoli e la vita del Rinascimento" in the Giornale critico della filosofia italiana, from 1927, looked at the case of Pietro Paolo Boscoli, executed in 1513 for involvement in an assassination conspiracy against the Medici family.
[15] Cantimori contributed an article, translated by Frances Yates, to the second issue of the London Journal of the Warburg Institute in 1937.
[16] Emma Cantimori edited with Gertrud Bing La rinascita del paganesimo antico (The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, 1966), the first published collection of Aby Warburg's writings.