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(Florence, 1764). In 8°, pp. 206 + 2 cc. nn.: "Fautes a' corriger" and "Table de chapitre". blooms and small woodworm holes. Contemporary binding in full parchment, gusset, gold title on the spine, stains, small defects on the plates.
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Very rare original edition published anonymously and without place of printing. Bertolini Stefano (1711-1782) studied at the law faculty of Pisa where he graduated in 1734. He founded a law firm in Florence before starting his career as an official of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1740, where he oversaw matters concerning the agricultural production and related economic issues. He was an ardent admirer of Enlightenment writings, particularly the work of Montesquieu; (he published his analysis raisonnée de l'esprit des lois in 1771). “In his economic project, B. started from the ideal of a harmonious city-countryside economic balance: his proposals presupposed a specific relationship with the city, in which artisan and commercial activities had to continue to flourish, supported by its countryside in which a large class of small landowners should have replaced the current owners of "large estates", pushing them to return to the ancient "republican" and municipal habit of investing their capital mainly in city economic enterprises. In fact, in 1764, he published in Florence "Les suffrages unanimes sur les moyens de rétablir une contrée inculte", in which the attempt to present indications compliant with this ideal, made more easily implementable, was evident., in his eyes, given the opportunity to intervene in a "contrée inculte", in which it was possible to redo the laws from the foundations or, in a Machiavellian way, reduce things to their principles". See D.B.I. (84)
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