Francesco Saverio Nitti

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Francesco Saverio Nitti
Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded byVittorio Emanuele Orlando
Succeeded byGiovanni Giolitti
Ministerial offices
Minister of the Interior
In office
23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byVittorio Emanuele Orlando
Succeeded byGiovanni Giolitti
Minister of the Treasury
In office
30 October 1917 – 18 January 1919
Prime MinisterVittorio Emanuele Orlando
Preceded byPaolo Carcano
Succeeded byBonaldo Stringher
Minister of Agricolture, Industry and Commerce
In office
29 March 1911 – 21 March 1914
Prime MinisterGiovanni Giolitti
Preceded byGiovanni Raineri
Succeeded byGiannetto Cavasola
Parliamentary offices
Member of the
Ex officio)[1]
Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office
25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948
ConstituencyItaly at-large
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
30 November 1904 – 25 January 1924
ConstituencyMuro Lucano
Personal details
Born
Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti

(1868-07-19)19 July 1868
Melfi, Kingdom of Italy
Died20 February 1953(1953-02-20) (aged 84)
Rome, Italy
Political partyHistorical Far Left (1880s–1904)
PR (1904–1922)
PLD (1922–1926)
Independent (1926–1946; 1948–1953)
UDN (1946–1948)
Other political
affiliations		Independent Left (1948–1953)

Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola[

Italian unification.[2][3][4]

Career

Born in

University of Naples. Nitti was chosen in 1904 for the Italian Radical Party to serve in the Italian Parliament. From 1911 to 1914, he was minister of agriculture, industry, and trade under the then prime minister Giovanni Giolitti. In 1917, he became minister of finance under Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
and held it until 1919.

On 23 June 1919, Nitti became prime minister and interior minister, after Orlando had resigned following the disappointed Italian gains at the

fascists. After less than a year as head of government, he resigned and was succeeded by the veteran Giolitti on 16 June 1920. In social policy, Nitti's government passed a law setting up compulsory insurance for unemployment, invalidity and old age.[5]

From 1901 to 1924, Nitti was a member of the country's

Russia of the Tsars. Referring to modernisation, he wrote: "Transplanting the principles and methods of the Russian Revolution into a country like Italy ... would be certain ruin. But it can be added that there is something in the spirit of the Russian Revolution that even Italy cannot ignore."[8]

Notable works

  • Population and the Social System (1894)
  • Catholic Socialism (1895, reprinted 1908)
  • Eroi e briganti (Heroes and brigands) (1899; reprinted by Osanna Edizioni, 2015) -
    ISBN 8881674696
    , 9788881674695)
  • L'Italia all'alba del secolo XX (1901)
  • Principi di scienza delle finanzie (1903, 1904; 5th ed., 1922). French translation: Principes de science des finances, (1904)
  • Peaceless Europe (1922)
  • The Decadence of Europe (1922)
  • The Wreck of Europe (1923)
  • Bolshevism, Fascism and Democracy (1927)

References

  1. Constituent Assembly
    he was automatically nominated senator.
  2. ^ Francesco Saverio Nitti, L'Italia all'alba del secolo XX, Casa Editrice Nazionale Roux e Viarengo, Torino-Roma, 1901
  3. ^ Francesco Saverio Nitti, Domenico De Masi, Napoli e la questione meridionale, Guida, Napoli, 2004
  4. ^ La scienza della finanza 1903-1936
  5. ^ Democracy and Social Policy by Yusuf Bangura
  6. ^ Francesco Saverio Nitti (1927), Bolshevism, Fascism and Democracy, New York: NY: Macmillan Co., p. 130
  7. ^ Francesco Saverio Nitti, Rivelazioni, p. 95
  8. ^ Francesco Saverio Nitti, Meditazioni dell'esilio, p. 125

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Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Italy
1919–1920 		Succeeded by
Italian Minister of the Interior

1919–1920
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