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DELFICO, MELCHIORRE (1744-1835)

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DELFICO, MELCHIORRE (1744-1835) , See also:Italian economist, was See also:born at See also:Teramo in the Abruzzi on the 1st of See also:August 1744, and was educated at See also:Naples. He devoted himself specially to the study of See also:jurisprudence and See also:political See also:economy, and his numerous publications exercised See also:great See also:practical See also:influence in the correction and extinction of many abuses. Under See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte Delfico was made a councillor of See also:state, an See also:office which he held until the restoration of See also:Ferdinand IV., when he was appointed See also:president of the See also:commission of archives, from which he retired in 1825. He died at Teramo on the 21St of See also:June 1835. His more important See also:works were: Saggio filosofico sul matrimonio (1774) Memoria sul Tribunale della Grascia e sulle leggi economiche nelle provincie confcnanti del regno (1786), which led to the abolition in Naples of the most vexatious and absurd restrictions on the See also:sale and exportation of agricultural produce; Rifiessioni su la vendita dei feudi (1790) and Leltera a Sua Ecc. it sig. Duca di Cantalupo (1795), which brought about the abolition of feudal rights over landed See also:property and their sale; Ricerche sul vero carattere della giurisprudenza See also:Romana e dei suoi cultori (1791); Pensieri su la storia e su l' incertezza ed inutilitd See also:delta medesima (18o6), both on the See also:early See also:history of See also:Rome. See F. Mozzetti, Degli studii, delle opere e delle virtal di Melchiorre Delfico; Tipaldo's Biographia degli Italiani illustri (vol. ii.).

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