Abstract
A quick way of spotting the new intellectual climate in Italy is via a comparison of a survey article on contemporary Italian philosophy, "Orientamenti della Filosofia Contemporanea in Italia," published by Francesco Orestano practically on the eve of the last war, with a very recent volume of essays entitled La mia prospettiva filosofica. The latter contains a dozen Confessiones Fidei, ten of which are written by present-day Italian thinkers, the other two being by Jules Chaix-Ruy and Louis Lavelle of France.