![]() In combination, these particularly informed his emerging views on law and civil society, the importance of historical understanding, his utilitarian tendencies and, more specifically, economic issues associated with trade, money, credit, and taxation. Verri's early steps in educating himself in the science of civil society were guided by four eighteenth-century intellectual giants of the Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Helvétius. Società dei Pugni by Antonio Perego from left to right: Alfonso Longo (behind), Alessandro Verri, Giambattista Biffi, Cesare Beccaria, Luigi Lambertenghi, Pietro Verri and Giuseppe Visconti di Saliceto In his early life, he translated Destouches' works and wrote satirical almanacs ( Borlanda impasticciata, Gran Zoroastro and Mal di Milza) which scandalized the Milanese society. ![]() Verri soon became convinced that Political Economy had to be at the center of all serious social and political interests. ![]() In mid-September 1759, he met the economist Henry Lloyd and developed a lifelong friendship with him. He volunteered to serve in the Seven Years' War in order to escape his father's decision to register him for legal studies but quit after a year. He received a strong religious education, from which he began to rebel when he reached his twenties. He studied in the Jesuit college in Monza, five years (1740–44) in the college of Barnabites in San Alessandro in Milan and two years (1744–45) in Rome in the college of Nazareno run by the Scolopi order. After the death of his brother, Carlo, he raised his nephew Luigi Castiglioni and greatly influenced the young man. He had three brothers: Alessandro, Carlo and Giovanni. Pietro Verri was born to a conservative noble family the eldest son of Gabriele Verri and Barbara Dati Della Somaglia, in a house of the Archinto in via Stampa 19 in Milan, then under Austrian rule. Among the most important personalities of the 18th-century Italian culture, he is considered among the fathers of the Lombard reformist Enlightenment and the most important pre-Smithian authority on cheapness and plenty. ![]() Meditazioni sull'economia politica ("Reflection's on Political Economy", 1771)Ĭount Pietro Verri (12 December 1728 – 28 June 1797) was an economist, historian, philosopher and writer. ![]()
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