L’essenza pedagogica dell’umanesimo di Ernesto Balducci

The article aims to examine the thought and work of Ernesto Balducci, one of the most original figures of the theological and spiritual culture of Italian Christian- Catholic reality after the Second World War. Also through the comparison with don Lorenzo Milani, of whom the Piarist was an attentive interpreter, the aim was to seek the originality and the “untimely actuality” of the theological, anthropological and religious meanings that characterize Balducci’s pedagogical humanism.