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Verri Pietro
(1728—1797)

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).

Italy, 1997, Pietro Verri