Thomas Carlyle, François Guizot and the Brothers Ruffini

An unpublished letter

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ID10225397
AuthorsAmity Jordan (0009-0008-4837-1843, Metropolitan University Prague, corresponding author), Alexander Jordan (0000-0003-0763-0307, Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic)
Year2023
Volume53
Issue2
Pages103-118
Publication date2023-05-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of European Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2441 • E-ISSN: 1740-2379
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00472441231172062
OpenAlexW4381281794
LanguageEN
References cited7

This article presents a letter from the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) to François Guizot (1787–1874), the de facto premier of France, recently discovered in the Archives Nationales in Paris. In the letter, Carlyle requests Guizot’s help in procuring visas for two of his friends, the exiled Italian revolutionaries Giovanni and Agostino Ruffini, who were hoping to visit their mother in France. The letter serves as an entry point into a wider consideration of the relationships between Carlyle, Guizot and the brothers Ruffini, all of which have been overlooked in the existing scholarship on Carlyle. In particular, the article provides an English translation of Giovanni and Agostino’s significant accounts of their relations with Carlyle (and his wife Jane), originally written in Italian

Art history · De facto · Political science · Scholarship · Theology · Wife · Classics · European Political History Analysis · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence

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