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IL CATTOLICESIMO LIBERALE NELL'INGHILTERRA VITTORIANA: LORD ACTON AND HIS CIRCLE
2015
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.
The secrets of men since born: Il Machiavelli di Lord Acton
2011
Lord Acton was one of the most eminent intellectuals of the Victorian age. His political thought aimed at reconciling his Catholic faith with liberal prin-ciples. Although he has never written a book, his essays expressed an histo-riography that has exerted great influence in the study of history, the most known example of which is the Cambridge Modern History, conceived by Lord Acton himself. This article aims at showing that his interpretation of Ma-chiavelli, expressed in the introduction to the famous edition of the Prince edited by Arthur Burd, is a precious testimony of the widespread circulation of Machiavellian thought in Europe.