Pietro Giannone

Pietro Giannone ( born May 7, 1676 in Ischitella, Foggia, † March 17, 1748 in Turin ) was an Italian jurist, historian and writer.

Giannone was in Naples in the house of the jurist Gaetano Argento its formation and summarized here the plan to Storia civile del regno his famous di Napoli (Naples 1723, four volumes, and 1770, seven volumes, new edition 1823 Milan f, 14 volumes ) on which he worked 20 years.

The sharpness with which he the pursuit of the Roman court and the doings of the clergy illuminated in this work at all, it persecutions on the part of the clergy attracted to. Excommunicated by the Archbishop, he was forced in 1723 to leave Naples, and to seek a refuge in Vienna, where he. , Emperor Charles VI received a pension.

In 1734 he lost his pension and had to rely Vienna. He went to Venice; but soon the government there took suspicions against his political views, which even be in favor of the naval supremacy of Venice over the Adriatic Sea due out intorno Lettera al dominio del mare Adriatico etc. could not dispel.

On the night of September 23, 1735 he was taken by gendarmes across the border, now took the name Antonio Rinaldo and went to Geneva, where he found excellent exception and his writing Il triregno, ossia del regno del cielo della terra e del papa completed.

Lured by a false friend in a Savoy village, he was arrested and only the castle Miolan, from there to the fort of Ceva and finally brought to the citadel of Turin, where he died on 7 March 1748. After his death, he published:

  • Posthumous Opere (Lausanne 1760), from which the sharpest points against the Roman clergy earlier than
  • Anecdotes ecclésiastiques (Haag 1738) were published, and
  • Opere inedite (edited by Mancini, Tur 1859, 2 vols. ) Containing: Discourses storici e politici sopra gli Annali di Tito Livio and La chiesa di sotto il pontificato Gregorio il grande

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  • Born in 1676
  • Died in 1748
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