biography
pronunciation:
[vayree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1728–97)
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| biography:
| Scholar and economist, born in Milan, Lombardy, N Italy. He was, with brother Alessandro Verri, one of the leading lights of the review Il Caffè (1764–6) and of Italian Enlightenment. His much praised essays on the economic structure of the region, Saggio sulla grandezza e decadenza del commercio di Milano sino al 1750 (1763) earned him a number of administrative posts. Among his other treatises are Meditazioni sull'economia politica (1771), Discorso sull'indole del piacere e del dolore (1773), and Pensieri sullo stato politico del Milanese nel 1790 (1790). |
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