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ROSSI, PELLEGRINO See also:
LUIGI
LUIGI EDOARDO, See also:
COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)
COUNT (1787-1848) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian economist and statesman, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Carrara on the 13th of See also:

JULY

July 1787. He was educated at See also:

PAVIA (anc. Ticinum, q.v.)

Pavia and See also:

Bologna, and in 1812 became See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

law at the latter university. In 1815 he gave his support to See also:

JOACHIM, JOSEPH (1831—1907)

Joachim See also:

MURAT, JOACHIM (1767—1815)

Murat, and after his fall escaped to See also:

France, whence he proceeded to See also:

Geneva. There he began a course of See also:

jurisprudence applied to See also:

ROMAN

Roman law, the success of which gained him the unusual See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of natural-ization as a See also:

CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen of Geneva. In 182o he was elected as a See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy to the cantonal See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council, and was a member of the extra-See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

DIET

diet of 1832. He was entrusted with the task of See also:

DRAWING

drawing up a revised constitution, which was known as the Pacte Rossi. This was rejected by a See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of the diet, a result which deeply affected Rossi, and induced him to look with favour on the suggestions of See also:

GUIZOT, FRANCOIS PIERRE GUILLAUME (1787-1874)

Guizot and the duc de See also:

BROGLIE, DE

Broglie that he should See also:

settle in France. He was appointed in 1833 to the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

ECONOMY

economy in the See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de France, vacated by the See also:

DEATH

death of J. B. Say. He was naturalized as a See also:

French citizen in 1834, and in the same See also:

YEAR

year became professor of constitutional law in the See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of law at See also:

Paris. In 1836 he was elected a member of the Academie See also:

des sciences politiques et morales, was raised to the See also:

peerage in 1839 and in 1843 became See also:

DOYEN, GABRIEL FRANCOIS (1726-1806)

doyen of the faculty of law.

In 1845 he was sent to See also:

Rome by Guizot to discuss the question of the See also:

JESUITS

Jesuits, being finally appointed See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador of France at Rome. The revolution of 1848 severed his connexion with France, and he remained at Rome and became See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of the interior under See also:

PIUS

Pius IX. He was unpopular, however, owing to his conservative views, and was assassinated on the 15th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November, as he was alighting at the steps of the See also:

House of See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly. As a statesman, Rossi was a See also:

man of See also:

SIGNAL

signal ability and intrepid See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, but it is as an economist that his name will be best remembered. His Cours d'economie politique (1838–54) gave in classic See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form an exposition of the doctrines of Say, See also:

MALTHUS, THOMAS ROBERT (1766-1834)

Malthus and See also:

RICARDO, DAVID (1772-1823)

Ricardo. His other See also:

WORKS

works were Traite de See also:

DROIT (Fr. for " right," from Lat. directus, straight)

droit penal (1829) ; Cours de droit constitutionnel (1866-67), and Melanges d'economie politique, d'histoire et de philosophie (2 vols., 1857). His widow See also:

LEFT

left a sum of 100,000 francs to the Institut de France, to found in his memory scholarships in political economy or law. Carrara erected a statue to his memory In 1876, and in 1887 the Societe d'economie politique celebrated his See also:

CENTENARY (from Lat. centenarius, of or belonging to a hundred, from centeni, distributive of centum, hundred)

centenary with a See also:

NOTICE

notice of his See also:

LIFE

life and works. See also le See also:

COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

Comte See also:

Fleury d'Ideville, Le Comte Pellegrino Rossi, sa See also:

vie, ses oeuvres, sa mort (1887).

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