Francesco Saverio Nitti

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Francesco Saverio Nitti
Nitti in 1920
Prime Minister of Italy
In office 23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded by	Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Succeeded by	Giovanni Giolitti
Ministerial offices Minister of the Interior In office 23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920 Prime Minister Himself Preceded by Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Succeeded by Giovanni Giolitti Minister of the Treasury In office 30 October 1917 – 18 January 1919 Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Preceded by Paolo Carcano Succeeded by Bonaldo Stringher Minister of Agricolture, Industry and Commerce In office 29 March 1911 – 21 March 1914 Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti Preceded by Giovanni Raineri Succeeded by Giannetto Cavasola
Parliamentary offices Member of the Senate of the Republic In office 8 May 1948 – 20 February 1953 (Ex officio)[1] Member of the Constituent Assembly In office 25 June 1946 – 31 January 1948 Constituency Italy at-large Member of the Chamber of Deputies In office 30 November 1904 – 25 January 1924 Constituency Muro Lucano
Personal details
Born	Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti (1868-07-19)19 July 1868 Melfi, Kingdom of Italy
Died	20 February 1953(1953-02-20) (aged 84) Rome, Italy
Political party	Historical 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^{[citation needed]} Nitti (19 July 1868 – 20 February 1953) was an Italian economist and statesman. A member of the Italian Radical Party, Nitti served as Prime Minister of Italy between 1919 and 1920. An opponent of the fascist regime in Italy, he opposed any kind of dictatorship throughout his career. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia in "Theories of Overpopulation", Nitti was also a staunch critic of English economist Thomas Robert Malthus and his Principle of Population; Nitti wrote Population and the Social System (1894). He was an important meridionalist and studied the origins of Southern Italian problems that arose after Italian unification.^[2][3][4]