For this reason Croce considers that his work (referring to his Historia de las ideas estéticas de España) suffers from a certain uncertainty, from the theoretical point of view of its author, Menéndez de Pelayo, which was that of a perfervid Spanish humanist, who, not wishing to disown the Renaissance, invented what he called Vivism, the philosophy of Luis Vives, and perhaps for no other reason than because he himself, like Vives, was an eclectic Spaniard of the Renaissance.
eta horregatik haren obrak, Croce-ren ustez,-haren Espainiako ideia estetikoen Historia-z ari zelarik-nolabaiteko zalantza ageri zuen, autorearen ikuspuntu teorikotik; Menéndez y Pelayok, Ernazimenduari uko egin nahi ez zion espainiar humanista berotu gisa, vivismoarena asmatu zuen, Luis Vivesen filosofia, eta beharbada, beste espainol hau ere, hura bezala, ernaziente eta eklektikoa zelako.