BARZELLOTTI, GIACOMO. - Philosopher, b. in Florence in 1844, d. in Rome in 1917. He taught at Pisa and at Rome. A pupil of Mamiani, in part a follower of Kant, never original, his theoretical philosophy reduces to a psychological analysis of the fact of human knowing. Moral values are posited as standing on their own, outside of science. The practical norm is inspired not by reason, but by the heart, by faith, by a most refined tact, practical rather than theoretical, guided by conscience.

He wrote: La morale nella filosofia positiva (Florence 1871); D. Lazzaretti di Arcidosso detto il Santo (Bologna 1885); Santi, solitari e filosofi; saggi psicologici (2nd ed., ibid. 1886); Dal Rinascimento al Risorgimento (Palermo 1909), as well as articles scattered in various journals.

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BIBL.: G. Gentile, G. B. e la filosofia non filosofica, in Origini della filos. contemp., I, Messina 1917, pp. 333-53; G. Alliney, I pensatori della seconda metà del sec. XIX, Milan 1942, pp. 117-120 and 345-46.

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