Libri di testo e programmi di insegnamento nelle università siciliane dell'Ottocento : le influenze francesi

The article focuses on French influences in text books and teaching programmes in nineteenth-century Sicilian Universities. The paper is divided into three parts in which attention is focused on: methods for defining programmes and choosing text books according to the discipline introduced in Sicily after 1816; influences exercised by French authors on Sicilian teachers; the role played by some members of the clergy in that delicate context. [Publisher's text].