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Book review of La corrispondenza massonica di Luigi Cremona con Giosuè Carducci e Francesco Magni, edited by Aldo Brigaglia and Simonetta Di Sieno

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The paper is a review of the book edited by Aldo Brigaglia and Simonetta Di Sieno presenting the correspondence of the mathematician Luigi Cremona with the poet Giosuè Carducci and the physician Francesco Magni regarding questions related to the unification of Italy.

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Notes

  1. The previous volumes in the series are [1, 3].

  2. See the Appendix C of the volume under review, pp. 189–190.

  3. The title is borrowed from a famous passage of the Aeneid, when Aeneas begins to tell the Trojan War: Animus meminisse horret (“The soul trembles with horror in remembering”).

  4. Emilio Broglio (1814–1892), lawyer, writer and university professor in Turin.

  5. Brioschi had been Secretary of the Ministry of Education (1 July 1861–1817 January 1863); temporary member of the higher council for education from 15 October 1865 to 27 December 1866, and a full member of the same council from 20 October 1867 to 6 December 1871.

  6. Cremona seems lamenting the divergence of his and Magni’s political positions; Magni—in a letter dated 8 January 1868 (pp. 81–82)—in reiterating the consistency of his own positions and playing the situation down, accused his friend of being the one who had changed his opinions. Magni was mainly smarting under the label of “dying himself red” given him by Cremona. He wrote: “As for the politics, I do not think we are moving apart as you think, because I have not moved from the place where we stood in unison; so the distance is only the one you measured by going, as you say, backwards; and, if even that is true, it can only be very small, since true gentlemen will always agree. So, it is not true that I dye myself red or, at least, I had, have, and always shall have this so-called advanced colour against priests and people of clerical principles, and I am very sorry that the moderate political party stops and sometimes tends to retreat, because in so doing, against its will, it proves right those who want to run, and who unfortunately can get to the precipice. But little harm would be done if they went alone; the worst is that they drag us all”.

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Nastasi, P. Book review of La corrispondenza massonica di Luigi Cremona con Giosuè Carducci e Francesco Magni, edited by Aldo Brigaglia and Simonetta Di Sieno. Lett Mat Int 5, 323–325 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40329-017-0207-z

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