Carlo Cattaneo was an Italian philosopher, writer, and activist, famous for his role in the Five Days of Milan in March 1848, when he led the city council during the rebellion.
Young Carlo Cattaneo in an 1887 woodcut by Edoardo Matania
The first issue of "Il Politecnico"
Cattaneo in his later years
Cattaneo's grave at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan
The Five Days of Milan was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan which in five days of street fighting drove Marshal Radetzky and his Austrian soldiers from the city.
The Five Days of Milan by Carlo Bossoli
Statuary at the base of the Obelisk monument to Five Days of Milan in memory of the popular uprising in 1848 against Austrian rule, by Giuseppe Grandi.
A milanese barricade during the 'five days'