Francesco Mario Pagano - Wikipedia Francesco Mario Pagano From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Francesco Mario Pagano Francesco Mario Pagano Born (1748-12-08)8 December 1748 Brienza, Province of Potenza, Kingdom of Naples Died 29 October 1799(1799-10-29) (aged 50) Naples, Kingdom of Naples Nationality Kingdom of Naples Other names Mario Pagano Alma mater University of Naples Federico II Occupation Jurist Author Years active 1768–1799 Notable work Saggi politici (1783–85) Progetto di Costituzione della Repubblica napoletana Sul processo criminale Esame politico dell'intera legislazione romana Discorso sull’origine e natura della poesia Gerbino Agamennone Corradino Gli esuli tebani Prometeo Teodosio Emilia Francesco Mario Pagano (8 December 1748 – 29 October 1799) was an Italian jurist, author, thinker, and the founder of the Neapolitan school of law.[1] He is regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers.[2] A moderate reformist, he is seen as a forerunner of the Italian unification.[3] Contents 1 Biography 2 Notes 3 References 4 External links Biography[edit] He was born in Brienza in the southern Province of Potenza. He studied at the University of Naples Federico II under Antonio Genovesi. At the age of twenty, he became special lecturer in moral philosophy there, at the same time practising law. He was friend of Gaetano Filangieri, entering the masonry with him, and was elected venerable master of the Neapolitan lodge "La philantropia". Pagano was one of the men who powerfully helped Italy in her social and scientific advancement and in the 1790s he had striven more than any other intellectual to give a political form to the 18th century reform tradition in southern Italy.[4] His work Saggi politici (1783–85) provided a philosophical history of the Kingdom of Naples, arguing against torture and capital punishment and advocating more benign penal codes. Considerazioni sul processo criminale (Considerations on the criminal trial, 1787), gave him international popularity and was much praised by Le Moniteur Universel, the main newspaper of the revolutionary France.[5] In 1794 he defended Vincenzo Galiani, Vincenzo Vitaliani and Emanuele De Deo – three alleged conspirators against Ferdinand IV; after they were sentenced to death, Pagano was deprived of his professorship, arrested, imprisoned and expelled from the kingdom.[6] After fleeing Naples in 1796, he returned in 1799 and drafted the constitution of the short-lived Neapolitan Republic. The document bore similarities to the French Constitution of 1793 but presented original traits such as the institution of the "body of ephors", an authority who would have overseen the maintenance of the law. It is considered the precursor of the modern constitutional court.[7] After the fall of the republic, Pagano was arrested and imprisoned in the Castel Nuovo. He was executed by hanging at the "Piazza del Mercato" in Naples, along with other revolutionaries: Domenico Cirillo, Giorgio Pigliacelli and Ignazio Ciaia. Pagano's other juridical or philosophical works included Progetto di Costituzione della Repubblica napoletana, Sul processo criminale, Esame politico dell’intera legislazione romana, and Discorso sull’origine e natura della poesia. He also translated works from Greek and Latin, and wrote six tragedies (Gerbino, Agamennone, Corradino, Gli esuli tebani, Prometeo, and Teodosio) and one comedy (Emilia). Notes[edit] ^ The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, ed. Goldie & Wokler, 2006, p. 765 ^ Fulvio Tessitore, Comprensione storica e cultura, Guida, 1979, p.27 ^ Roland Sarti, Italy: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present, Infobase Publishing, 2009, p. 457 ^ Girolamo Imbruglia, Naples in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 168 ^ Biancamaria Fontana, The Invention of the Modern Republic, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 140 ^ Francesco Mario Pagano (1748-1799) Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine ^ Maria Rosa Di Simone, Istituzioni e fonti normative in Italia dall'Antico Regime al fascismo, p. 111, Giappichelli, Torino, 2007. References[edit] Nico Perrone. La Loggia della Philantropia. Un religioso danese a Napoli prima della rivoluzione. Palermo: Sellerio publ., 2006. ISBN 88-389-2141-5.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Mario Pagano". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. External links[edit] Media related to Francesco Mario Pagano at Wikimedia Commons Quotations related to Francesco Mario Pagano at Wikiquote Works by or about Francesco Mario Pagano in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Authority control BNE: XX1741201 BNF: cb13529072w (data) GND: 118968890 ISNI: 0000 0000 8128 0307 LCCN: n79106095 NLG: 231619 NLI: 000423034 NTA: 07087803X SUDOC: 031095895 VcBA: 495/24755 VIAF: 49383214 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79106095 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Francesco_Mario_Pagano&oldid=901405236" Categories: 1748 births 1799 deaths Italian jurists Italian historians Italian republicans Italian Freemasons People from Brienza Enlightenment philosophers Philosophers of law History of Naples 18th-century executions 18th-century Neapolitan people 18th-century jurists Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Use dmy dates from December 2012 Articles with hCards Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference Commons link is locally defined Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLG identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Languages Català Deutsch Español Français Italiano Latina Napulitano Polski Português Română Русский Sardu Svenska Yorùbá Edit links This page was last edited on 11 June 2019, at 17:12 (UTC). 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