Giuseppe Maria Galanti

Giuseppe Maria Galanti (1743–1806) was an Italian economist, in the Kingdom of Naples.

Life

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]

Works

(critical edition, Maria Rosaria Pelizzari, 2000)

References

Notes

  1. Peter E. Bondanella, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Jody Robin Shiffman, Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature (1996), pp.198-9.
  2. Bondanella et al., p. 372.
  3. John Anthony Davis, Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780-1860 (2006), p. 67
  4. Jennifer D. Selwyn, A Paradise Inhabited by Devils: The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples (2004), p. 29.

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