Carlo Cattaneo
Carlo Cattaneo | |
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Provisional Government of Milan | |
In office 18 March 1848 – 5 August 1848 | |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Italian | 15 June 1801
Domestic partner | Anna Woodcock (1835–1869; his death) |
Alma mater | University of Pavia |
Carlo Cattaneo (Italian:
Early life and education
Cattaneo was born in Milan on 15 June 1801. He was the son of Melchiorre Cattaneo, a goldsmith, and Maria Antonia Sangiorgi.[1] After attending school in Milan he studied law at the University of Pavia, graduating in 1824.[1]
A republican in his convictions, during his youth Cattaneo had taken part in the
1848 revolution
Cattaneo was a moderate Italian patriot. He supported the
When on March 18 Field Marshal
The enemy having furnished us with munitions thus far, will continue to do so. 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.
On the expulsion of the Austrians the question arose as to the future government of Milan and Italy. Cattaneo was an uncompromising republican and a federalist; so violent was his dislike of the Piedmontese monarchy that when he heard that King Charles Albert had been defeated by the Austrians, and that Radetzky was marching back to reoccupy Milan,[9] he exclaimed:
Good news, the Piedmontese have been beaten. 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.
Exile and later career
When the Austrians returned, in August 1848, Cattaneo fled Milan and took refuge in the
He wrote his Storia della Rivoluzione del 1848 (History of the 1848 Revolution), the Archivio triennale delle cose d'Italia (3 vols., 1850–1855), then, early in 1860, he started publishing the Politecnico once more. In 1858, the Grand Council of Ticino awarded Cattaneo an honorary Swiss bourgeoisie.[1]
Whiled exiled in Switzerland, Cattaneo continued to follow the events of
As a writer, Cattaneo was learned and brilliant, but some view him as being too bitter a partisan to be judicious, owing to his narrowly republican views. His ideas on local
Published works by Cattaneo
- Interdizioni israelitiche, essay from the year 1836
- La città considerata come principio ideale delle istorie italiane
- Dell'India antica e moderna
- Notizie naturali e civili su la Lombardia
- Vita di Dante di Cesare Balbo
- Dell'Insurrezione di Milano nel 1848 e della successiva guerra
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Carlo Cattaneo in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 537.
- ^ Filippo Sabetti, Civilization and Self-Government: The Political Thought of Carlo Cattaneo, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2011, p. 30.
- ISBN 9788887152210.
- ^ ^ On complicated life of Anna Woodcock see: F.Piscopo, Bianca Milesi. Arte e patria nella Milano risorgimentale, pp.67-70.
- ISBN 9781851097982.
- ^ Colussi, Paolo; Luraschi, Francesco (December 27, 2007), Cronologia di Milano dal 1841 al 1850, Storiadimilano, retrieved September 14, 2008
- ^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 537–538.
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911, p. 538.
- ^ Lacaita, Carlo G; Sabetti, Filippo, eds. (2006). Civilization and Democracy: The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings. University of Toronto Press. p. 29.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cattaneo, Carlo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 537–538. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the