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Author-Name: Omar Ottonelli 
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università di Firenze - Dipartimento di Scienze per l’Economia e l’Impresa
Title: Albori di socialismo tra i democratici fiorentini: Niccolò Lo Savio e «Il Proletario»
(A Socialist avant-garde within the Florentine Democrats: Niccolò Lo Savio and «Il Proletario») 
Abstract: The Florentine «Il Proletario. Giornale economico-socialista per la democrazia operaia» [«The proletarian.
Economic and socialist newspaper devoted to the working class democracy»] is considered one
of the first socialist newspapers distributed in Italy, together with the Neapolitan «Libertà e Lavoro». 
It was founded and directed by Niccolò Lo Savio (1834-1911), who published twenty issues between
1865 and 1866. This paper aims to describe the historical, political and cultural background in which
«Il Proletario» was developed and the beliefs that were expressed by his director, always inspired by a
strong confidence on cooperative institutions. In the end, Lo Savio will be presented as an emblematic
figure of a generation of young democrats disappointed by the weak reformism showed by their
contemporary political leaders and gradually attracted by Socialism.
Classification-JEL: B14, B31
Keywords: Niccolò Lo Savio; «Il Proletario»; Socialism; surplus value theory; social question; Florence;
Tuscan democrats; Tuscan moderates (Niccolò Lo Savio; «Il Proletario»; socialismo; teoria del plusvalore; questione sociale;
Firenze Capitale; democratici toscani; moderati toscani)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 177-194
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Year: 2013
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201306301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:21:y:2013:1:9:p:177-194