Letter to Filippo Turati, February 13, 1892

Author(s)	Friedrich Engels
Written	13 February 1892

First published in Annali, an I, Milano, 1958
Printed according to the original
Translated from the Italian
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 49

ENGELS TO FILIPPO TURATI

IN MILAN

London, 13 February 1892

Splendid! Many thanks.^[1]

Cheerio.

F.E.

↑ On 2 February 1892 Filippo Turati sent Engels an article by the Italian philosopher and political leader Giovanni Bovio published in La Tribuna. The article contained a critique of the first instalment of Engels' 'Socialism in Germany' (see present edition, Vol. 27, pp. 235-50) as printed by Turati in the socialist journal Critica Sociale, No. 2, 16 January 1892. Turati, editor of the journal, reproduced Engels' work in translation from its French version published in Almanack du Parti Ouvrier. Turati requested Engels to reply to Bovio's article. Engels wrote his counterblast in French (see 'Reply to the Honourable Giovanni Bovio', present edition, Vol. 27, pp. 270-72) and sent it with a covering letter to Turati. Turati's Italian translation of Engels' reply, endorsed by the latter in a letter to Turati of 13 February (see this volume, p. 356), was published in Critica Sociale, No. 4, 16 February 1892 under the title 'Federico Engels — Giovanni Bovio' and was reprinted by several Italian newspapers.

[1] On 2 February 1892 Filippo Turati sent Engels an article by the Italian philosopher and political leader Giovanni Bovio published in La Tribuna. The article contained a critique of the first instalment of Engels' 'Socialism in Germany' (see present edition, Vol. 27, pp. 235-50) as printed by Turati in the socialist journal Critica Sociale, No. 2, 16 January 1892. Turati, editor of the journal, reproduced Engels' work in translation from its French version published in Almanack du Parti Ouvrier. Turati requested Engels to reply to Bovio's article. Engels wrote his counterblast in French (see 'Reply to the Honourable Giovanni Bovio', present edition, Vol. 27, pp. 270-72) and sent it with a covering letter to Turati. Turati's Italian translation of Engels' reply, endorsed by the latter in a letter to Turati of 13 February (see this volume, p. 356), was published in Critica Sociale, No. 4, 16 February 1892 under the title 'Federico Engels — Giovanni Bovio' and was reprinted by several Italian newspapers.

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