Francesco Saverio Nitti

Francesco Saverio Nitti
Nitti in 1920
Prime Minister of Italy
In office
23 June 1919 – 15 June 1920
MonarchVictor 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 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
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[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]

  1. ^ As member of the 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