L'elemento estetico della conoscenza storica. Fra Croce e Windelband

Intuition and interest in the historical knowledge. The “early” Croce and Windelband. The author makes a comparison between Benedetto Croce’s academic writing of 1893, La storia ridotta sotto il concetto generale dell’arte, and Wilhelm Windelband’s Rektoratsrede of 1894, Geschichte und Naturwissenschaft. By means of this comparison, which is focused on the concepts of intuition and interest, the author can reconstruct the dense network of sources of the theory of the history outlined by the young Croce and by Windelband: from Lazarus to Simmel, from Köstlin to Labriola.