''Il Conciliatore'' was a progressive bi-weekly scientific and literary journal, influential in the early Risorgimento. The journal was published in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

from September 1818 until October 1819 when it was closed by the Austrian censors. Its writers included

Ludovico di Breme Ludovico di Breme (Turin, 1780 – Turin, 15 August 1820), whose complete name was Ludovico Arborio Gattinara dei Marchesi di Breme, was an Italian writer and thinker, as well as a contributor to Milan's principal Romantic journal, '' Il Conciliat ...

, Giuseppe Nicolini and Silvio Pellico. The latter wrote articles for the magazine supporting the publication of novels in Italy.

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The name of the magazine was intended to suggest reconciliation between

Neoclassicism Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiq ...

and

Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjec ...

. Edited by Silvio Pellico and

, it attracted contributions from leading Italian liberal intellectuals on

economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

, social issues, and

science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

. Its literature articles paid particular attention to

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

and the

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

, and included contributions by Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Giovanni Berchet, Pietro Borsieri, Giuseppe Nicolini and Ermes Visconti. Earnestly pedagogical in spirit, the ‘foglio azzurro’ (so called from the colour of its paper) was in trouble from the start with polemical rivals and the censors, who eventually closed it down in October 1819. The former editor of the magazine, Silvio Pellico, was arrested in October 1821 and sentenced to fifteen years' labour, to be served in the notorious Moravian Špilberk Castle.

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