IL PROGETTO DI RIFORMA SCOLASTICA DELL’ISTITUTO LOMBARDO (1848, RELATORE CARLO CATTANEO) E LA LEGGE CASATI (1859)

Abstract

This essay describes the reasons of two different documents. The first one is the project of public teaching system in Lombardy developed by Istituto Lombardo and written by Carlo Cattaneo just before the uprising against Austrians of March 1848 so-called “Cinque Giornate di Milano”. The second one is Casati Act, that reorganizes the whole educational system after the annexation of Lombardy into Piedmont in 1859. The project of 1848 was both inspired by the most advanced intellectuality of Milan and by the thought of Carlo Cattaneo, who was negative with Casati Act and with the whole uni-fication process lead by Savoia court. But the structure that Francesco Brioschi gave in 1863 to the Politecnico di Milano (that had been established by Casati Act) was also in-fluenced by the lesson of Cattaneo on scientific, technical and manufacturing education.