Author	Lovett, Clara Maria. author
Title	Carlo Cattaneo and the Politics of the Risorgimento, 1820-1860 [electronic resource] / by Clara Maria Lovett
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1972
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2373-3
Descript	X, 138 p. online resource

In January 1948, Alessandro Levi, a distinguished scholar in the fields of law, philosophy and political theory, published an article entitled "The 'return' of Carlo Cattaneo. " 1 Levi, himself the author of an imยญ portant work on Cattaneo, 2 reported on several initiatives which had been taken by Italian scholars since 1945 to rescue the Lombard writer and politician from relative obscurity. With some financial assistance from the City of Milan, a committee of Italian and Swiss scholars had been formed in the spring of 1946 to publish Cattaneo's works, which until then had only appeared in fragmentary and uncritical 3 editions. LeMonnier of Florence had agreed to publish the new ediยญ tion. Meanwhile, the Lombard historian Rinaldo Caddeo was preparing with considerable pains an edition of several volumes of Cattaneo's correspondence. In addition, a catalog of materials pertaining to Catยญ taneo and found among the Crispi papers was being prepared at the State Archives in Palermo. A brief biography had appeared in 1945 and other works by historians, political scientists, and journalists were 4 in progress. These initiatives seemed long overdue, in view of the fact that Cattaneo's contemporaries had considered him a leading figure in the liberal-democratic current of the Risorgimento. As Levi acknowledged in his article, however, these efforts to rescue Cattaneo's work from obscurity were something more than a belated tribute to an important participant in the history of nineteenth century Italy

I. A Progressive Mind in the Age of Restoration, 1820-1848 -- The Education of a Nineteenth Century Liberal, 1818-1827 -- The Apprentice Writer: Cattaneo and the Annali Universali di Statistica, 1827-1836 -- The Years of Maturity: Cattaneoโ{128}{153}s Economic and Social Thought, 1836-1839 -- Il Politecnico: โ{128}{156}Herein Dwells My Spiritโ{128}{157}, 1839-1844 -- Reformer and Critic: the Development of Cattaneoโ{128}{153}s Political Thought, 1844-1848 -- II. Reluctant Revolutionary, 1848-1849 -- The Five Days of Milan -- Cattaneo, Charles Albert, and the Provisional Government of Lombardy, March-May 1848 -- Cattaneo, Mazzini, and the Politics of โ{128}{156}Fusionโ{128}{157}, May-August 1848 -- Informal Diplomacy: Cattaneoโ{128}{153}s Mission to Paris, August-October 1848 -- A View of the Revolution in Lombardy: Cattaneoโ{128}{153}s Lโ{128}{153}insurrection de Milan en 1848 -- Cattaneo, Mazzini, and the Revolution in Central Italy, November 1848-May 1849 -- The Triumph of Reaction, June-October 1849 -- III. Nationalism and Liberty: Cattaneoโ{128}{153}s Search for a Political Program, 1850-1858 -- Cattaneo and the Archivio triennale, 1850-1851 -- Cattaneo, Mazzini, and the Lessons of History -- Cattaneo, Ferrari, and the Federalist Alternative -- Cattaneo, Pisacane, and the Social Question -- โ{128}{156}Pursuits of a More Quiet Natureโ{128}{157}: Cattaneo and the Cultural and Economic Life of Canton Ticino, 1852-1858 -- Cattaneoโ{128}{153}s Attitude Toward Italian Politics and European Diplomacy 1852-1858 -- IV. Cattaneo and the Politics of Italian Unification, 1859-1860 -- โ{128}{156}The Spirit of Napoleon Is Rising Again โ{128}{157}: Cattaneo and the Meaning of the Franco-Sardinian Alliance, January-April 1859 -- Cattaneo, Mazzini, and the Meaning of Bonapartism -- Cavourโ{128}{153}s War and the Annexation of Lombardy, April-December 1859 -- Elections, Plebiscites... and โ{128}{156}Pancakesโ{128}{157}: Cattaneo and the Creation of a โ{128}{156}Political Italyโ{128}{157}, January-June 1860 -- A Last Chance for Liberty: Cattaneo and the Southern Question, June-November 1860 no -- V. Carlo Cattaneo and the Politics of The Risorgimento: An Ambiguous Legacy