Gentile, Gabetti e i fuoriusciti ebrei tedeschi. Il caso di Karl Löwith

This essay seeks to contribute, at least partially, to the reconstruction of the complex relationship with Italian culture in which Jew scholars, es-pecially German Jews who had migrated to Italy, engaged under fascism. Such reconstruction focuses in particular on the contexts associated to Giovanni Gentile in the 1930s and – through the analysis of the figure of Giuseppe Gabetti, then director of the Institute of Germanic Studies (which was presided by Gentile) – attempts to shed light on the thick net-work of interventions aimed at supporting, both culturally and financial-ly, scholars such as Paul O. Kristeller and Karl Löwith. While Kristeller’s case is rather renowned, Löwith’s still captures historians attention due to the papers, which are yet to be probed, gathered at the Institute of Germanic Studies in Villa Sciarra.