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See also:CAMPOMANES, PEDRO See also:RODRIGUEZ, See also:CONDE DE (1723-1802) , See also:Spanish statesman and writer, was See also:born at See also:Santa Eulalia de Sorribia, in See also:Asturias, on the 1st of See also:July 1723. From 1788 to 1793 he was See also:president of the See also:council of See also:Castile; but on the See also:accession of See also:Charles IV. he was removed from his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and retired from public See also:life, regretted by the true See also:friends of his See also:country. His first See also:literary See also:work was Antiquidad maritima de la republica de See also:Cartago, with an appendix containing a See also:translation of the Voyage of See also:Hanna the Carthaginian, with curious notes. This appeared in a See also:quarto See also:volume in 1756. His See also:principal See also:works are two admirable essays, Discurso sobre el fomento de la See also:industria popular, 1774, and Discurso sobre la See also:education popular de los artesanos y su fomento, 1775. As a supplement to the last, he published four appendices, each considerably larger than the See also:original See also:essay. The first contains reflections on the origin of the decay of arts and manufactures in See also:Spain during the last See also:century. The second points out the steps necessary for improving or re-establishing the old manufactures, and contains a curious collection of royal ordinances and rescripts regarding the encouragement of arts and manufactures, and the introduction of See also:foreign raw materials. The third treats of the gild See also:laws of artisans, contrasted with the results of Spanish legislation and the municipal ordinances of towns. The See also:fourth contains eight essays of Francisco Martinez de Mata on See also:National See also:commerce, with some observations adapted to See also:present circumstances. These were all printed at See also:Madrid in 1774 and 1777, in five volumes. See also:Count Campomanes died on the 3rd of See also:February 1802.
See also:Don A. Rodriguez See also:Villa has placed a See also:biographical See also:notice of Campo-See also:manes as an introduction to the first edition of his Callas politicoeconomicas, published in 1878.
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