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Pietro Verri’s Contribution to the Economic Theory of the 18th Century: Commercial Society, Civil Society and Governance of the Economy
No full text'Count Pietro Verri (1728-97) - Schumpeter writes (History, p. 178) - - would have to be included in any list of the greatest economists'. Within the Milanese school, he certainly stands out, alongside with Cesare Beccaria, during one of the most interesting periods from a history of analysis point of view. Luigi Cossa's famous introduction to the study of political economy rates Pietro Verri to be inferior to Beccaria in ingenuity and scientific cultivation, but greatly to be ahead of him as an economist.1 This judgement by Cossa, in particular, seems to echo the relative position of the two men in the history of ideas, particularly after Beccaria's rise to fame with a book - On crimes and punishments - which had in fact been largely inspired by Verri himself and defended by him.2 It is proposed in the present paper to revisit some of the basic tenets of Pietro Verri's political economy, with more in view than dwell on specific intuitions and theorems: namely relate those to Verri's own - quite original - conception of the economy. The scholarly work of Pietro Verri - with a special reference to his Meditazioni sulla economia politica of 1771 - provides the first systematic contribution stemming from the quarters of Lombard enlightenment in the field of political economy, especially so if one considers that Cesare Beccaria's parallel work - namely his Elementi di economia pubblica, conceived and drafted at the same time as Verri's Meditazioni - would only be published posthumously several years later. From the vantage point afforded by Verri's political economy, we gain a considerably attractive view of the most significant elements and characteristic concepts of Lombard enlightenment during the latter half of the 18th century; Verri, moreover, as we shall see, builds on a number of them in a new and original way. This paper is aimed at discussing Verri's political economy mainly along two distinct, but related, lines. In the first place the conception of commercial society is considered such as it is treated by the author particularly in his Meditazioni. In this perspective the analysis of such issues as competition and the market or money and taxation occupy a central place. Secondly it will be necessary to emphasise that Verri's approach has little to do either with forms of pure economics on one side - largely yet to be born throughout the 18th century - or, on the other side, with such conceptions of the polis - contrariwise well alive among his own contemporaries - as are founded on a sovereign authority conceived to be situated above the law. What Verri's political economy ultimately amounts to is an economic conception of civil society. The latter has natural strong connections with his own fact-mindedness - emphasised by Schumpeter - as well as with his deep practical involvement in administrative affairs and in the reforming process taking place during the latter half of the 18th century in Milan. In our view, a thorough investigation along the mentioned lines is the precondition for an understanding of the intellectual stature and of the scholarly contribution of Pietro Verri. His main ground is distinctly analytical and only by appreciating his analysis is it possible to shed light on the meaning and intellectual significance also of his practical contributions. Moreover Verri's pronouncements on the criticism of despotic government, the relevance of intermediate powers or bodies and on multiple levels of governance will be examined in a new and original light, showing how close they are to the gist of his analysis.
Risposta ad uno scritto, che s'intitola note, ed osservazioni sul libro dei delitti, e delle pene
No full text[Pietro e Alessandro Verri, Cesare Beccaria]Segn.: A-E8, F
Il verri
No full textLa rivista "il verri" è stata fondata nel 1956 da Luciano Anceschi. In un paese che ancora risentiva il pesante arretramento causato dalla cultura fascista, l'intenzione era di diffondere le importanti novità che erano nel frattempo emerse a livello internazionale. Negli anni Sessanta e Settanta è stata la rivista della seconda avanguardia, legata ai Novissimi e al Gruppo 63. È sempre uscita ininterrottamente e puntualmente, cambiando diversi editori e qualche volta autogestita. È fondamentalmente una rivista di letteratura che vuole mantenersi aperta alle più diverse discipline e favorire la commistione tra le singole modalità di pensiero
Verri contro Verri. «Una famiglia sbranata pel delirio di pochi anni»(1782-post 1790)
No full textSi ricostruisce la storia delle numerose liti successorie che vedono su fronti avverse i fratelli Verri, Pietro il primogenito, e i cadetti Alessandro Carlo e Giovanni: gli esiti provocano una profonda lacerazione famigliare che si attenuerà solo dopo la morte di Pietro (1797
Méditations sur l'économie politique / Pietro Verri
No full textÉdition critique par André Tiran ; avec la collaboration de Pier Luigi Porta, Anne Machet et Maria Vitali-Volant ; traduction d'Anne Machet, Maria Vitali-Volant et Frédéric Manche.International audienceLes Méditations sur l’économie politique de Pietro Verri sont l’une des quatre oeuvres économiques majeures du XVIIIe siècle. Ses écrits sont les contributions majeures de l’école italienne. C’est l’un des plus grands théoriciens du bonheur public dans les écrits de l’économie politique du XVIIIe siècle européen. Édition critique par André Tiran ; avec la collaboration de Pier Luigi Porta, Anne Machet et Maria Vitali-Volant ; traduction d'Anne Machet, Maria Vitali-Volant et Frédéric Manche
Le Osservazioni sulla tortura del Verri, in Varianti politiche d’autore. Da Verri a Manzoni, a cura di Beatrice Nava, Bologna, Pàtron editore, 2019, pp. 59-76 (ISBN 9788855534635)
No full textLa composizione delle Osservazioni sulla tortura prese le mosse dalla lettura degli atti del processo agli untori del 1630, in particolare del Summarium Offensivi contra don Ioannem Caietanum de Padilla, in cui uno degli imputati aveva fatto raccogliere le sue difese, offrendo una preziosa testimonianza dei fatti accaduti a Milano durante la peste. Quando Verri ebbe tra mani gli atti del processo, li lesse, li studiò e li postillò, dando inizio alla composizione della propria opera. Le postille agli atti rappresentano, pertanto, la prima testimonianza del lavoro di Verri nel corso della scrittura delle Osservazioni sulla tortura e sono state un punto centrale del lavoro di edizione
Quando Verri difese su "Titivillus" Totò Toma
No full textIl contributo ricorda, a distanza di vent'anni dalla morte, la figura di Antonio Verri, editore e letterato salentino, rievocando alcuni episodi della relazione intellettuale da lui intrattenuta con lo scrivente
Introduzione a Pietro Verri Pioniere del Diritto Internazionale Umanitario
No full textIl ruolo del Generale Pietro Verri nello studio e nella diffusione delle tematiche del diritto internazionale umanitari
A Novel Kernel Method for Clustering
No full textABSTRACT
Kernel Methods are algorithms that, by replacing the inner product with
an appropriate positive definite function, implicitly perform a nonlinear mapping of
the input data into a high-dimensional feature space. In this paper, we present a
kernel method for clustering inspired by the classical K-Means algorithm in which
each cluster is iteratively refined using a one-class Support Vector Machine. Our
method, which can be easily implemented, compares favorably with respect to
popular clustering algorithms, like K-Means, Neural Gas, and Self-Organizing
Maps, on a synthetic data set and three UCI real data benchmarks (IRIS data,
Wisconsin breast cancer database, Spam database)
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