Which answer matches this clue: the Gentile education minister who oversaw the 1923 school reform that shaped the system for decades?

• A Benedetto Croce
• B Luigi Berlinguer
• C Giovanni Gentile ✓
• D Giuseppe Bottai

Giovanni Gentile's 1923 reform introduced the liceo classico as the elite path, the esame di maturità, and centralised curriculum control.