SCIALOJA, Antonio.

Trattato elementare di Economia sociale ... (Approvato e destinato ad uso della Università negli Stati Sardi).

Turin, G. Pomba e Comp., 1848 [but 1849 on the printer’s colophon]. 8vo, pp. 206; half-title with repaired tear and small portion of lower outer corner torn away, initially a little foxed, edges soiled; recent boards. Rare first edition. This textbook for students was written at the end of Scialoja’s two-year tenure of the chair of political economy in Turin. ‘After two years he resigned this post and became minister of Ferdinand II, king of Naples, when the latter for a short time pretended to pose as a reformer and a liberal. After this, Scialoja was imprisoned by the reactionary Neapolitan governement and condemned to a long term of imprisonment; this sentence was commuted into exile in 1852 (Palgrave). He later returned to play an important role in the risorgimento, and became minister of finance of the liberated and unified Italy.Cossa, p. 8; Einaudi 5180; Kress Italian 1198; not in Goldsmiths’; NUC locates 3 copies only, at Chicago, Kansas, and Harvard; OCLC adds the Columbia copy.

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