IL CATTOLICESIMO LIBERALE NELL'INGHILTERRA VITTORIANA: LORD ACTON AND HIS CIRCLE

Abstract

Lord Acton was an eminent victorian intellectual, even if he was crit- icized by many enemies to be both catholic and liberal. It was very problematic to be ‘papist’ in England, and liberal in the Roman Church when the pope did condemn the liberalism. Nonetheless his liberal political theory was very influential, and many Gladstone’s re- forms were inspired by his ideas.