Albori di socialismo tra i democratici fiorentini: Niccolò Lo Savio e «Il Proletario» (A Socialist avant-garde within the Florentine Democrats: Niccolò Lo Savio and «Il Proletario»)

Omar Ottonelli
Additional contact information
Omar Ottonelli: Università di Firenze - Dipartimento di Scienze per l’Economia e l’Impresa

Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2013, vol. 21, issue 1, 177-194

Abstract: The Florentine «Il Proletario. Giornale economico-socialista per la democrazia operaia» [«The proletarian. Economic and socialist newspaper devoted to the working class democracy»] is considered one of the first socialist newspapers distributed in Italy, together with the Neapolitan «Libertà e Lavoro». It was founded and directed by Niccolò Lo Savio (1834-1911), who published twenty issues between 1865 and 1866. This paper aims to describe the historical, political and cultural background in which «Il Proletario» was developed and the beliefs that were expressed by his director, always inspired by a strong confidence on cooperative institutions. In the end, Lo Savio will be presented as an emblematic figure of a generation of young democrats disappointed by the weak reformism showed by their contemporary political leaders and gradually attracted by Socialism.

Keywords: Niccolò Lo Savio; «Il Proletario»; Socialism; surplus value theory; social question; Florence; Tuscan democrats; Tuscan moderates (Niccolò Lo Savio; «Il Proletario»; socialismo; teoria del plusvalore; questione sociale; Firenze Capitale; democratici toscani; moderati toscani) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B14 B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201306301&rivista=63
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pei:journl:v:21:y:2013:1:9:p:177-194

Access Statistics for this article

Il Pensiero Economico Italiano is currently edited by Massimo Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi

More articles in Il Pensiero Economico Italiano from Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Carlo Cristiano ().