It is appropriate that a biography of Rosmini for English speaking readers should appear soon after the centenary of his death (1955), for it has taken Europe almost a hundred years to discover this great Italian. A recent international congress at Stresa brought together the representatives of seventeen nations for a week's study of the various facets of his contribution to European thought. Rosmini's greatness was recognised throughout Italy while he was yet alive, and there can be no stronger proof of this than the generous testimony of that other great Italian, his philosophic rival, Gioberti. It was the twist of events and the national solution that followed Rosmini's death that was for a time fatal to his fame.