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Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Economia

Giuseppe Palmieri

Of national wealth, 1792

Estimate

€ 150 - 300

Sold

€ 258

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Information

Naples, for Vincenzo Flauto at the expense of Michele Stasi, 1792. 8°, 220 x 140 mm. Complete with the rare errata sheet, marginal tears on the first two leaves; otherwise, a PERFECT COPY. Bound in green half leather and cloth, early 20th century.

Specialist Notes

First edition of Palmieri's last political-economic work , published shortly before his death and which became his most important work. "As a minister of an absolute monarchy, he wanted to proceed with great caution in the reform of abuses." In 1787, he became a member of the Supreme Council of Finance of the Kingdom of Naples, a council he assumed leadership of in 1791, two years before his death. A strong supporter of the overthrow of the feudal regime, he promoted laws for grain and other food supplies (ration laws) and reforms of codes and institutions, as well as the development of the road network of the Kingdom of Naples. During these years of government activity, he collaborated with another prominent representative of the Neapolitan Enlightenment, Gaetano Filangieri.
P. Rossi, Course of Political Economy , II, 259]. Einaudi 4270; Kress it. 6.

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