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Melchiorre Delfico was born on the 1st of August, 1744 in Teramo, Italy.
Melchiorre Delfico
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economist numismatist philosopher
Melchiorre Delfico was born on the 1st of August, 1744 in Teramo, Italy.
Melchiorre Delfico devoted himself specially to the study of jurisprudence and political economy, and his numerous publications exercised great practical influence in the correction and extinction of many abuses. Under Joseph Bonaparte Delfico was made a councillor of state, an office which he held until the restoration of Ferdinand IV, when he was appointed president of the commission of archives, from which he retired following 1825.
Delfico's more important works were: Saggio jllosoflco sul matrimonio (1774); Memoria sul Tribunale della Grascia e sulle leggi economic he nelle province conflnanli del regno (1785), which led to the abolition in Naples of the most vexatious and absurd restrictions on the sale and exportation of agricultural produce; Riflessiomi su la vendita dei feudi (1790) and Lellera a Sua Eco. il sig. Duca di Canlalupo (1795), which brought about the abolition of feudal rights over landed property and their sale; Ricerche sul vero carattere della giurisprudenza Romana e dei suoi cultori (1791); Pensieri sulla Istoria e su l'incertezza ed inutilità della medesima (1806), both on the early history of Rome.
Artist, composer, singer, conductor, writer, librettist and a master of the Neapolitan art of caricature
