Religione, educazione civica e morale negli scritti politici di Paolo Mantegazza. Profilo e militanza parlamentare di un «laico religioso».

Starting from a reconstruction of the political profile of Paolo Mantegazza as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, this article aims to show how Mantegazza himself had tried to promote the formation of a new and cohesive national identity. As a matter of fact, by his pedagogical project he had tried to reconcile the positivistic faith in science with political education and religious feeling, within a secular, but not for this reason anti-Christian, culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]