"Il più grande ideale per cui valga la pena di lavorare". Croce, Einaudi, l'Europa e il Trattato di Parigi

In July 1947 the Assemblea Costituente was called to approve the Treaty of Peace with Italy, signed in Paris the previous february. Among the interventions, those of Benedetto Croce and Luigi Einaudi were particularly meaningful. Commenting on the Treaty, these authors mainly referred to Europe and the future political order of the Continent. It is a theme on which both had written during the previous half of the century and on which, during the debate, Einaudi and Croce would come to very different conclusions. The discussion on the Treaty of Paris became the key to retrace the Europeism of these two authors, in order to identify their topical elements.