Solid mechanical problems in the aRisorgimentoa generation

We want to give a synthetic idea of the history of some arguments of the solid mechanics drawn up in Italy during the last four decades of the 19th Century (Your virtue is to be corious; you want to penetrate into the causes, to go back to the seeds. aBB I know how from one of those trifles, that the uninitiated donat get, you scientists can get out the spark, that gave light to the most remote truths./Voi aBB avete la virtA1 di essere curiosi; volete penetrare nelle cause, rimontare al seme. aBB So come da una di quelle inezie, le quali sfuggono allaattenzione dei profani, voi scienziati potete cavare la scintilla, che rischiara poi le veritANB piA1 riposte.), Boito (Senso, 1883). The expression Risorgimento Generation is ascribable to Giovan Battista Guccia (1855a1914), with reference to the school of Francesco Brioschi (1824a1897), as inspiration of the foundation (1884) of the Mathematical Society of Palermo.