Background
Carlo Cattaneo was born on June 15, 1801 in Milan.
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Nineteenth-century Italy is a vast, unexplored territory in the history of modern political thought and liberal democratic theory. Apart from Mazzini, Pareto, and Mosca, the authors of this period are little read, even though their central concerns the riddle of human liberation, progress, and liberty are as important today as ever. This volume presents a selection of the writings of Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869), one of the period's most important thinkers, as selected by an equally important personage of a subsequent time, the anti-Fascist intellectual Gaetano Salvemini. Cattaneo had a profound sense of the historical contingencies underlying the quest both to understand human affairs and to realize a self-governing society. Cattaneo's ideas and framework of analysis like those of John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville were not shaped by a narrow intra-academic agenda but by the great social, economic, and political transformations of his time. The issues he addressed included problems of revolution, reform, and change in the passage to modernity, which extended far beyond the confines of nineteenth-century Italy. The selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let this profound Italian thinker speak for himself.
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Carlo Cattaneo was born on June 15, 1801 in Milan.
A republican in attaneo's convictions, during his youth he had taken part in the Carbonarist movement in Lombardy. Carlo Cattaneo expounded his ideas in a review founded by him at Milan in 1837, called II Politecnico.
But when the revolution of 1848 broke out he threw himself heart and soul into the fray, and became one of the leading spirits of the insurrection against the Austrians, known as the Five Days of Milan (March 18-22, 1848).
Together with Terzaghi, Cernuschi and Clerici he formed acouncil of war which, having its headquarters at Casa Taverna, directed the operations of the insurgents.
Again on the 216t, Radetzky tried to obtain an armistice, and Durini and Borromeo were ready to grant it, for it would have enabled them to reorganize the defences and replenish the supplies of food and ammunition, which could only last another day.
But Cattaneo replied: "The enemy having furnished us with munitions thusfar, will continue to furnish them.
Twenty-four hours of victuals and twenty-four hours of hunger will be many more hours than we shall need.
This evening, if the plans we have just arranged should succeed, the line of the bastions will be broken.
At any rate, even though we should lack bread, it is better to die of hunger than on the gallows. "
Now we shall be our own masters; we shall fight a people's war, we shall chase the Austrians out of Italy, and set up a Federal Republic. "
When the Austrians returned Cattaneo had to flee, and took refuge at Lugano, where he gave lessons, wrote his Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848, the Archivio triennale delle cose d' Italia (3 vols. , 1850 - 1855), and then early in 1860 he started the Politecnico once more.
In 1860 Garibaldi summoned him to Naples to take part in the government of the Neapolitan provinces, but he would not agree to the union with Piedmont without local autonomy.
In 1868 the pressure of friends overcame his resistance, and he agreed to stand, but at the last moment he drew back, still unable to take.
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Carlo Cattaneo bitterly attacked Cavour for his Unitarian views, and for the cession of Nice and Savoy.
Carlo Cattaneo devoted himself to the study of philosophy, hoping to regenerate the Italian people by withdrawing them from romanticism and rhetoric, and turning their attention to the positive sciences.
