Pietro Custodi
The Right Honourable Pietro Custodi | |
|---|---|
Pietro Custodi | |
| Born | November 29, 1771 |
| Died | 15 May 1842 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupations |
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| Known for | editing a collection of the principal Italian economists |
| Title | Baron |
| Spouses | Febronia Colombo
(m. 1805; died 1829)Nina Arioli (m. 1829) |
| Parent(s) | Giuseppe Custodi Geltrude Milanesi |
| Awards | Order of the Iron Crown |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Pavia |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political economy, political philosophy |
| School or tradition | Classical economics |
Pietro Custodi (29 November 1771 – 15 May 1842) was an Italian economist and journalist.
Biography
Born in Galliate, near Novara, Custodi was by profession a lawyer, but soon entered into journalism and directed the newspaper L'Amico della libertà italiana.[1] He was arrested by Napoleon but freed after the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy and appointed secretary-general of the finance department in Milan.[1] Later he was made a baron and became a state councilor. He died in Galbiate, near Milan, in 1842.[2]
Custodi continued Pietro Verri's History of Milan and edited the unpublished works of Baretti; as an economist he is widely known as the editor of a collection of the principal Italian economists in fifty volumes.[3]
Works
His greatest contribution to economics was the compilation of 50 volumes of Italian essays and articles on political economy, Scrittori classici italiani di economia politica (1803-16). Many of these papers, written from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century, had not been published before.[4] In 1824 Custodi founded, together with Gioia and Romagnosi, the Annali Universali di Statistica, one of the first Italian economic reviews.[5]
Notes
- ^ a b Antonielli 1985.
- ^ Gallavresi 1931.
- ^ Pantaleoni 1894, p. 474.
- ^ Mai, Ludwig H. (1975). "Pietro Custodi". Men and Ideas in Economics. A Dictionary of World Economists, Past and Present. Totowa: Littlefield, Adams. p. 64.
- ^ Cossa, Luigi (1892). Introduzione allo studio dell'economia politica. Milan: Hoepli. p. 505.
Bibliography
- Pantaleoni, Maffeo (1894). "Custodi, Pietro". In Inglis Palgrave (ed.). Dictionary of Political Economy. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan and Company. p. 474. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Gallavresi, Giuseppe (1931). "CUSTODI, Pietro, barone". Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
- Antonielli, Livio (1985). "CUSTODI, Pietro". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 31: Cristaldi–Dalla Nave (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6. Retrieved 21 January 2025.