Carlo Cattaneo e la psicologia delle menti associate

Abstract

Carlo Cattaneo belongs to the cultural heritage of Italian history of the first half of the nineteenth century. He is commonly remembered as the promoter of the journal «The Polytechnic» and of the political theory of the confederate and Ghibelline state. Without detracting from these aspects of his thought, it should be remembered that Carlo Cattaneo developed the psychology of the associated minds, as it is found not only in the five memoirs presented between 1859 and 1866 at the headquarters of the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze Lettere e Arti, but also in the lessons he held from 1852 to 1865 at the Lugano high school.