ZAMBONI, GIUSEPPE. - Neoscholastic philosopher, born in Verona on February 2, 1875, and died in Boscochiesanuova (Verona) on August 8, 1950.
After a brilliant apologetic activity against positivist materialism, he was called in 1925 to the Catholic University of Milan, where he devoted himself to philosophical problems with a particular methodological approach that he termed the "gnoseology of the act." This consisted primarily in the analysis of immediate ontological contents (notions of being, substance, cause) as given in the experience of the self and in extending these contents to the sphere of the external world and to problems of moral life. Zamboni’s work, rich in interesting analyses, reveals the presence of multiple influences (Kant, Rosmini, Mercier) which he sought to integrate into a coherent synthesis in which ontology, through ascending moments, is rooted in an evidence of immediate transparency for the reality of the act that underlies it at each stage.