Carlo Cattaneo and a book on England and the English

Journal title IL RISORGIMENTO
Author/s Sergio Bucchi
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/1
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 7-30 File size 206 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISO2020-001001
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In the middle of the 1830s the careful reading of a then successful book by Edward Lytton Bulwer, England and the English, inspired the young Cattaneo to write, in english language, a long, demanding essay. Entitled An unenglish appendix to Mr. B.’s England and the English, this essay was left unfinished by the author and remained unpublished till the middle of past century. The present article aims to focus the role played by the reading of the above-mentioned book - included the appendices written anonymously by J.S. Mill - in the formation of Cattaneo’s historical and philosophical thought.

Keywords: Radicalism, Psychology, Historicism

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Sergio Bucchi, Carlo Cattaneo e un libro sull’Inghilterra e gli Inglesi in "IL RISORGIMENTO" 1/2020, pp 7-30, DOI: 10.3280/RISO2020-001001