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Italian economist
Galanti
Giuseppe Maria Galanti (1743–1806) was an Italian historian and economist, in the
Kingdom of Naples .
Galanti was born in
Santa Croce del Sannio ,
Molise . He was a follower of
Pietro Giannone
[1] and studied under
Antonio Genovesi .
[2] While young he was influenced by independent-minded priests and came to hate
feudalism ; moving as a boy to
Naples , he came to know the ideas of
Gaetano Filangieri as well as those of Genovesi.
[3]
With the title Visitatore generale del Regno, he surveyed the state of the kingdom, and proposed agricultural and economic reforms. A critic of the top layers of Neapolitan society, he considered them too little interested in commerce.
[4]
(critical edition, Maria Rosaria Pelizzari, 2000)
Memoria intorno allo stato dei Banchi (1799)
Testamento forense (1806)
Scritti sulla Calabria (critical edition, 1993)
Memorie storiche del mio tempo e altri scritti di natura autobiografica (1761-1806) (critical edition, 1996)
Pensieri vari e altri scritti della tarda maturità (critical edition, 2000)
Prospetto storico sulle vicende del genere umano (critical edition, 2000)
Sources
^
Peter E. Bondanella , Julia Conaway Bondanella, Jody Robin Shiffman, Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature (1996), pp.198-9.
^ Bondanella et al., p. 372.
^ John Anthony Davis, Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860 (2006), p. 67
^ Jennifer D. Selwyn, A Paradise Inhabited by Devils: The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples (2004), p. 29.
Further reading
Corrado Rainone, Il pensiero economico di Giuseppe Maria Galanti: 1743-1806 (Rome, 1968)
Augusto Placanica, Daniela Galdi, Libri e manoscritti di Giuseppe Maria Galanti (1998)
Gentile Giulio, Amor della libertà e saperi di governo in Giuseppe Maria Galanti - Informazioni sul prodotto (2001)
Mafrici M., Pelizzari M. R. (editors), Un illuminista ritrovato: Giuseppe Maria Galanti (2006)
ISBN
88-88773-25-8 ,
ISBN
978-88-88773-25-4
Ileana Del Bagno, Saggi di storia del diritto moderno (2007)
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