Giuseppe Maria Galanti (1743–1806) was an Italian historian and economist, in the

Kingdom of Naples The Kingdom of Naples ( la, Regnum Neapolitanum; it, Regno di Napoli; nap, Regno 'e Napule), also known as the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was ...

Life

Galanti was born in

Santa Croce del Sannio Santa Croce del Sannio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Benevento in the Italian region Campania, located about 70 km northeast of Naples and about 30 km north of Benevento. Santa Croce del Sannio borders the following ...

Molise Molise (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Neapolitan, Mulise) is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy. Until 1963, it formed part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise, alongside the region of Abruzzo. The split, which did not become effe ...

. He was a follower of

Pietro Giannone Pietro Giannone (7 May 1676 – 17 March 1748) was an Italian philosopher, historian and jurist born in Ischitella, in the province of Foggia. He opposed the papal influence in Naples, for which he was excommunicated and imprisoned for twelve ...

and studied under

Antonio Genovesi Antonio Genovesi (1 November 171322 September 1769) was an Italian writer on philosophy and political economy. Biography Son of Salvatore Genovese, a shoemaker, and Adriana Alfinito of San Mango, Antonio Genovesi was born in Castiglione, near ...

. While young he was influenced by independent-minded priests and came to hate

feudalism Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structur ...

; moving as a boy to

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, he came to know the ideas of

Gaetano Filangieri Gaetano Filangieri (22 August 1753 – 21 July 1788) was an Italian jurist and philosopher. Filangieri was born in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, in the province of Naples, Italy. He was born the third son of a sibship of the noble family of Filang ...

as well as those of Genovesi. 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.Jennifer D. Selwyn, ''A Paradise Inhabited by Devils: The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples'' (2004), p. 29.

Works

* *''Elogio di Niccolò Machiavelli cittadino e segretario fiorentino. Con un Discorso intorno alla costituzione della Società ed al governo politico'' (1779) * *''Saggio sopra l' antica storia de' primi abitatori dell'Italia'' (1783) * (Five volumes, 1786–1794). *''Giornale di viaggio in Calabria'' (1792) * (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)

References

;Sources ;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) , * Ileana Del Bagno, Saggi di storia del diritto moderno (2007)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Galanti, Giuseppe Maria 1743 births 1806 deaths People from the Province of Benevento Italian economists