Ceti dirigenti e istruzione a Milano e in Lombardia tra età delle Riforme e Restaurazione. Alcune note sul rapporto di Carlo Cattaneo Sull’ulteriore sviluppo della pubblica istruzione (1848)

The essay by Carlo Cattaneo "On the further development of public education", composed by order of the government of Vienna in the first months of 1848, on the eve of the riot of the "Cinque giornate", constitutes an interesting document, which allows to know the orientations of the Lombard statesman in the field of public education, and at the same time provides a very precise and complete picture of the state of public education in Lombardy-Veneto, twenty years after the entry into force of the "Regolamento Generale" of 1818. Some observations on the link between enlargement and diffusion of technical and commercial education and economic and political development in Lombardy are of great interest, and on the character and characteristics of the emerging Lombard entrepreneurial bourgeoisie, as reasons of resistance to the transformation of the school system.