Abstract
This contribution examines the correspondence between Luigi Carrer and Florentine intellectuals and reconstructs two particularly important episodes in his intellectual biography. The first episode concerns Carrer’s contacts (mediated by Niccolò Tommaseo) with Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, who eventually invited him to be a writer for the «Antologia»; the second episode (1849-50) outlines Carrer’s involvement in the publication of Ugo Foscolo’s Opere by Le Monnier, an enterprise of central importance to Florentine and Italian culture. The article ends with the edition of the complete and previously unpublished correspondence between Carrer and Vieusseux.