Vito Fazio-Allmayer

In memory of this eminent philosopher and pedagogist, originary from Alcamo, the Liceo Statale specializing in Human Sciences, Social Economy, Foreign Languages and Music (with the authorization for Dance) has been dedicated to him.

Together with Giovanni Gentile and Guido De Ruggiero, he was one of the supporters of that Actual idealism which "had all the romantic seduction and all the optimistic confidence of attracting...the best dissatisfied young people, those not moving towards D'Annunzio or Marinetti",[2] and in 1914–15 he openly sustained, even with lectures, Italy's intervention in the world war, but he was declared unfit at the military visit.

Bruna Boldrini, the philosopher's wife, who tried to outline the substantial autonomy of Fazio from Gentile's metaphysics, affirmed that Fazio-Allmayer arrives to justify the historical experience as concrete life, in which the manifold and different forms flow into an intersubjective relationship, ethical-aesthetic synthesis, into the specicifity of each one (p. 35).

On the other hand, since 1922 even Benedetto Croce, in a review of the essay Contributo alla teoria della storia dell'arte (later in Opere, IV, pp.

[1] Teaching is not dying, but entering a life process preceding us and following us over time: on this certainty of Vito and Bruna Fazio-Allmayer, it is based a pedagogic drive of Socratic kind, therefore the master feels a man among men, being more expert, while they are younger, but tending towards the new.