Gaetano Filangieri

Gaetano Filangieri

Gaetano Filangieri (born August 22, 1752 in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio , near Naples , † July 21, 1788 ) was an Italian lawyer and philosopher.

Life

His father, Cesar Filangeri , Prince of Arianiello , envisaged a military career for him, which he began at the age of seven but soon dropped out to become a lawyer. As a lawyer, his knowledge and eloquence quickly brought him success. His support for a royal decree reforming the corrupt judiciary won him the favor of the king, Ferdinand IV , and his prime minister, Bernardo Tanucci, and resulted in several honorable judicial appointments.

The first parts of his work La Scienza della legislazione (The Science of Legislation) appeared in 1780. The first volume dealt with the rules of legislation in general and the abolition of medieval institutions that hindered production and prosperity, while the second dealt with the Dedicated to questions of economics . These two books show him as a fiery reformer and a staunch opponent of the grievances of his time. He insisted on unlimited free trade and the abolition of medieval organizational structures. With this he had great success not only in Italy , but also in the rest of Europe.

In 1783 he married, resigned from his offices and retired to Cava to devote himself to completing his work. In the same year his third book was published, which was entirely devoted to criminal law. The suggestions he made in this work, such as the need for reform in the Catholic Church, earned him censorship by the ecclesiastical authorities. His book was placed on the Forbidden Books Index in 1784.

In 1785 he published his fourth work in three volumes on the subjects of education and morality.

In 1787 he was appointed supreme treasurer by Ferdinand IV, but his health, impaired by overhaul in the new office and his studies, forced him to retreat to the land with Vico Equense . He died suddenly of tuberculosis on July 21, 1788 , while he was finishing the first part of his fifth book. He left sketches for his sixth book.

According to the Gaetano Filangieri Philosophical Society, Benjamin Franklin was a passionate follower of Filangieri, and the two corresponded from 1780 until Filangieri's death in 1788.

Even Johann Wolfgang Goethe expressed in his book Italian Journey respectfully about a meeting with Filangieri.

Works

• Riflessioni politiche su l'ultima legge del sovrano, che riguarda la riforma dell'amministrazione della giustizia, Napoli 1774
• La scienza della legislazione, Napoli 1780–1785
• Reflexiones sobre la libertad del comercio de frutos, Madrid 1784
• Chiesa e convento di S. Lorenzo Maggiore in Napoli: descrizione storica ed artistica, Napoli 1833
• L'arte del geometra agrimensore o sia trattato di geometria pratica - note, Napoli 1841
• Il Museo artistico industriale in Napoli: relazione di Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli 1879
• Di alcuni dipinti a fresco in S. Pietro a Maiella scoverti per cura di Gaetano Filangieri principe di Satriano, Napoli 1881
• La testa del cavallo in bronzo già di casa Maddaloni in via Sedile di Nido, ora al Museo Nazionale di Napoli: ricerche di Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli 1882
• Chiesa e convento del Carmine Maggiore in Napoli: descrizione storica ed artistica per Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli 1885
• La famiglia, le case e le vicende di Lucrezia D'Alagno: documenti per Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli 1886
• Catalogo del Museo Civico Gaetano Filangieri principe di Satriano; a cura di B. Capasso, E. Cerillo; con note di G. Filangieri, Napoli 1888
• Chiesa e monastero di S. Gaudioso in Napoli per Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli 1888
• Descrizione storica ed artistica della chiesa e convento di S. Maria delle Grazie Maggiore a Caponapoli per Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli 1888
• Per la morte di Gaetano Del Pezzo marchese di Campodisola, Napoli 1889
• Proposte al real governo per la istituzione di addetti industriali e commerciali presso i consolati d'Italia all'estero per Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli 1889
• Indice degli artefici delle arti maggiori e minori la più parte ignoti o poco noti ai napoletani e siciliani si delle altre regioni d'Italia o stranieri che operarono tra noi con notizia delle loro opere e del tempo del loro esercizio da studii e nuovi e document pubblicati per cura di Gaetano Filangieri, Napoli
• Il mondo nuovo e le virtu civili: l'epistolario di Gaetano Filangieri 1772–1788, Napoli 1999

literature

• FS Salfi, Franco Crispini (ed.), “Introduzione” di Valentina Zaffino: Elogio di Filangieri. Cosenza, Pellegrini, 2012, ISBN 978-88-8101-863-5 .
• Bernardo Cozzolino, San Sebastiano al Vesuvio: Un itinerario storico artistico e un ricordo di Gaetano Filangieri. Edizioni Poseidon, Napoli 2006.
• Paolo Becchi: Filangieri and Tanucci's laws. A contribution of the Neapolitan Enlightenment to overcoming the arcana juris , Archive for Legal and Social Philosophy 78.4 (1992), p. 472.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Citations in Google Books