Saint-Simon per la nuova Europa? Le interpretazioni parallele di Carlo Curcio e Armando Saitta

This article analyses the reception of Saint-Simon’s De la réorganisation de la société européenne in Italy at the collapse of the fascist regime, when it was designated as an important source of inspiration by historians Carlo Curcio and Armando Saitta in the debate regarding the future of Europe. This case study provides the comparative analysis on how this legacy was preserved by those historians who had very different backgrounds, a contrast which emerged in their pages where Saint-Simon’s project of a European union is described ranging between liberalism and socialism, politics and economy, democracy and the threat of technocracy.