Abstract
The involvement of some of the most prominent Italian mathematicians of the end of the nineteenth century has often been highlighted by the historians of mathematics. This article draws a general analysis of the way the position of a mathematician can be used in the political field to found a legitimating discourse, some kind of expertise, or to claim a specific way to consider political questions. It shows in particular that mathematicians in Parliament never forget their disciplinary origins and try to use it to legitimate their stands while some members of Parliament tend to consider them as outsiders whose intervention in the political field is attached to abstraction and somehow disconnected from reality.
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