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Since the first half of the 19th century, the most renowned intellectuals in the Savoyard Kingdom put effort into facing up the backwardness of the educational system and in particular into enhancing technical-scientific studies. Educational journals were one of the ways to achieve these aims (Chiosso, 2013). From 1849 to 1894 in Piedmont the Società d'Istruzione e di Educazione, a Turinese association of politicians, professors and teachers, which represented a unique case in all of Italy, published the first successful educational journals of the country. Since the first periodicals dedicated solely to the teaching of mathematics flourished just in the 1870s, our purpose is to investigate the role of the teaching of mathematics in the journals of this association, by showing the knowledge and working habits between primary, technical and secondary schools. We examine how Savoyard Kingdom stood out for its educational journals, which were free from the censorship contrary to other Italian territories and which payed attention towards the elementary and secondary scientific teaching. We also analyse the situation after the Italian Unification, when a conspicuous number of 'practical educational journals' for elementary schools, which provided weekly articles about the teaching of mathematics, were published in Turin. This situation changed when in the 1880s the mathematical journals for teaching blossomed.

The correspondence between Carlo Ignazio Giulio (1803-1859) and Quintino Sella (1827-1884), one of the most important protagonists of the Risorgimento, holds great importance for the history of the University of Turin, by shedding new light on their role in the scientific organization and their political involvement in the establishment of technical-scientific schools in Turin, the R. Istituto Tecnico (1852) and the R. Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri (1859). Interesting details emerge about the scientific collections of the institutions, such as the realization of geometric and crystal models and the purchase of engineering instruments. It also reveals the international relationships the two protagonists had with well-known scientists and instruments makers, mostly thanks to their travels and participation in international exhibitions.

The correspondence between Carlo Ignazio Giulio (1803-1859) and Quintino Sella (1827-1884), one of the most important protagonists of the Risorgimento, holds great importance for the historyof the University of Turin, by shedding new light on their role in the scientific organization and their political involvement in the establishment of technical-scientific schools in Turin, the R. Istituto Tecnico (1852) and the R. Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri (1859). Interesting details emerge about the scientific collections of the institutions, such as the realization ofgeometric and crystal models and the purchase of engineering instruments. It also reveals the international relationships the two protagonists had with well-known scientists and instruments makers, mostly thanks to their travels and participation in international exhibitions.

The correspondence between Carlo Ignazio Giulio (1803-1859) and Quintino Sella (1827-1884), one of the most important protagonists of the Risorgimento, holds great importance for the history of the University of Turin, by shedding new light on their role in the scientific organization and their political involvement in the establishment of technical-scientific schools in Turin, the R. Istituto Tecnico (1852) and the R. Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri (1859). Interesting details emerge about the scientific collections of the institutions, such as the realization of geometric and crystal models and the purchase of engineering instruments. It also reveals the international relationships the two protagonists had with well-known scientists and instruments makers, mostly thanks to their travels and participation in international exhibitions.

Nonostante la ricca bibliografia su Quintino Sella, ad oggi sono poco approfonditi i suoi legami con la matematica, sia per quanto concerne la ricerca in cristallografia geometrica e l'insegnamento nelle scuole tecniche inferiori e superiori torinesi, sia per le influenze che la sua formazione e la sua cultura matematica ebbero nell'attività politica, sia ancora per il suo ruolo nella promozione dei soggiorni di perfezionamento all'estero di giovani neolaureati in Matematica. Nel ricostruire questi aspetti, nella tesi è stata ripercorsa la biografia scientifica di Sella, seguendo specifiche traiettorie inerenti il suo contributo alla cristallografia geometrica, all'istruzione tecnica e alla politica scolastica, e contestualizzandole a livello istituzionale, scientifico, storico e politico.

Abstract One of the most important correspondence of the Risorgimento and unification period is that exchanged between Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (1835-1910) and Quintino Sella (1827-1884) not only for scientific and political stature of the two protagonists, but also for the opportunity it offers to discover new aspects and perspectives on histories of mathematics, astronomy, sciences and society. They concern, for example, the Turin and national university context, the cultural policies related to the development of research and improvement of scientific teachings, what kind of organization to prepare for meteorology and what instruments to equip observatories. The correspondence also reveals the ideals and aspirations of the two friends, as well as the difficulties and obstacles that they were able to overcome with determination, tenacity and strong sense of ethics. Keywords Scientific correspondence, Schiaparelli Giovanni Virginio, Sella Quintino, Turin and Berlin universities, Pulkova observatory