Melchiorre Delfico (1 August 174421 June 1835) was an Italian economist.
Biography
Delfico was born at
Teramo
Teramo (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Tèreme ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo.
The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines ( Gran Sasso d'Itali ...
, in the
Abruzzo (then in the
Kingdom of Naples) and was educated at
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 devoted himself specially to the study of jurisprudence and political economy, and his numerous publications exercised great practical influence in the correction and extinction of many abuses. Under
Joseph Bonaparte
it, Giuseppe-Napoleone Buonaparte es, José Napoleón Bonaparte
, house = Bonaparte
, father = Carlo Buonaparte
, mother = Letizia Ramolino
, birth_date = 7 January 1768
, birth_place = Corte, Corsica, Republic of ...
Delfico was made a councillor of state, an office which he held until the restoration of
Ferdinand IV, when he was appointed president of the commission of archives, from which he retired in 1825.
[ This cites:
* F. Mozzetti, ''Degli studii, delle opere e delle virtù di Melchiorre Delfico''
* Tipaldo, ''Biographia degli Italiani illustri'' (vol ii)]
Melchiorre Delfico died at Teramo in 1835. His nephew was the
caricaturist
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Melchiorre Delfico.
Works
His most important works include:
*''Saggio filosofico sul matrimonio'' (1774)
*''Memoria sul Tribunale della Grascia e sulle leggi economiche nelle provincie confinanti del regno'' (1785), which led to the abolition in Naples of the most vexatious and absurd restrictions on the sale and exportation of agricultural produce.
*'' Riflessioni su la vendita dei feudi'' (1790) and ''Lettera a Sua Ecc. sig. Duca di Cantalupo'' which brought about the abolition of feudal rights over landed property and their sale
*''Ricerche sul vero carattere della giurisprudenza Romana e dei suoi cultori'' (1791) and ''Pensieri sulla Istoria e su l'incertezza ed inutilità della medesima'' (1806), both on the early history of Rome.
References
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1744 births
1835 deaths
People from Teramo
Italian economists
People of the Parthenopean Republic
18th-century Italian philosophers
19th-century Italian philosophers