Bertolotti’s complex historiographical production reveals a problem with the authenticity of his sources and the depth of his research, a not insignificant problem with informational historical-cultural works published in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is in this development of traditional historiography (also in Portugal), which leads to “summaries of summaries”, where one point of obvious epistemological weakness can be found regarding the authenticity of the result – a methodological criticism which applies to almost the whole of the production in these years when the more rigorous form of research that had sprung from the German school was just starting to be propagated in the world of romantic culture.

Davide Bertolotti was a member, and correspondent member for the area of moral, historical and philological sciences, of the prestigious Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (1812), of which Alexandre Herculano became a member in 1849 also as a correspondent member. However, there is no reference to any correspondence between the two scholars despite their sharing a mutual passion: the historical novel.

Works by the author : Milano e la Lombardia nel 1818, Milano, Stella&C., 1818; Il Ricoglitore [1818-1823], Milano, Soc. Tip. de’ Classici Italiani; I Lusiadi di Luigi Camones, Milano, Società Tipografa dei Classici Italiani, 1821; Peregrinazioni, 2 vols., Soc. Tip. de’ Classici Italiani, 1822; Il Nuovo Ricoglitore [1823-1834], Milano, Stella e figli; La Calata degli Ungheri in Italia nel ‘900, Milano, Soc. Tip. de’ Classici Italiani, 1823; Storia di Portogallo dai primi tempi sino ai nostri giorni. Tratta dal Durdent, dal Balbi e da altri autori, III tt., Milano, Tipografia Ranieri Fanfani, 1824; Storia della Cina, Milano, Stella e figli, 1825; Istoria della Real Casa di Savoia, Milano, Fontana, 1830; Gli arabi in Italia, Torino, Baglione e Comp., 1838; (com Cesare Cantù), Grande illustrazione del regno Lombardo-veneto, Milano, 1857; Stati Sardi, Cremona [s. n.], 1857.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | (Pdf)