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In this paper, I discuss four recent contributions on Leo Strauss written by Italian scholars: those by Mauro Farnesi Camellone (§ 1), Marco Menon (§ 2), Alberto Ghibellini, and myself (§ 3). I aim to clarify the reasons why, in several Italian studies from the last two decades, Leo Strauss has been studied more as a philosopher than as a political thinker in the strict sense. The main reason lies, in my opinion, in the relationship that Strauss himself establishes between the “problem of the possibility of philosophy,” due to the separation of episteme from doxa, and the necessity of “reticent writing.” Reticent writing is a methodical tool to control the conflict generated by the philosophical question of justice, a conflict with potentially destructive consequences for philosophy as a way of life.