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See also:COUNT PELLEGRINO See also:LUIGI EDOARDO See also:ROSSI (1787-1848) , See also:Italian economist and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Carrara on the 13th of See also:July 1787 . He was educated at See also:Pavia and See also:Bologna, and in 1812 became See also:professor of See also:law at the latter university . In 1815 he gave his support to See also:Joachim See also: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 law, the success of which gained him the unusual See also:honour of natural-ization as a See also:citizen of Geneva . In 182o he was elected as a See also:deputy to the cantonal See also:council, and was a member of the extra-See also:ordinary See also:diet of 1832 . He was entrusted with the task of See also:drawing up a revised constitution, which was known as the Pacte See also:Rossi . This was rejected by a See also:majority of the diet, a result which deeply affected Rossi, and induced him to look with favour on the suggestions of See also:Guizot and the duc de See also:Broglie that he should See also:settle in France . He was appointed in 1833 to the See also:chair of See also:political See also:economy in the See also:College de France, vacated by the See also:death of J . B . Say . He was naturalized as a See also:French citizen in 1834, and in the same See also:year became professor of constitutional law in the See also: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 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, being finally appointed See also:ambassador of France at Rome . The revolution of 1848 severed his connexion with France, and he remained at Rome and became See also:minister of the interior under See also:Pius IX . He was unpopular, however, owing to his conservative views, and was assassinated on the 15th of See also:November, as he was alighting at the steps of the See also:House of See also:Assembly . As a statesman, Rossi was a See also:man of See also:signal ability and intrepid See also: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 an exposition of the doctrines of Say, See also:Malthus and See also:Ricardo . His other See also:works were Traite de See also: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 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 with a See also:notice of his See also:life and works . See also le See also:Comte See also:Fleury d'Ideville, Le Comte Pellegrino Rossi, sa See also:vie, ses oeuvres, sa mort (1887) . |
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Pellegrino ROSSI was educated (at Correggio) then at Pisa and Bologna and not in Pavia ! Sincerely Giancarlo Cacciatori Tel. 0585-73700) via roma 13 54033 CaRRARA (Italy)
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