Francesco Mario Pagano
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Francesco Mario Pagano was an Italian jurist.
Pagano studied at the University of Naples under Antonio Genovesi
, and became professor of moral philosophy and jurisprudence there. Saggi politici (1783-5) provided a philosophical history of the Kingdom of Naples
, arguing against torture and capital punishment and advocating more benign penal codes. In 1794 he defended Galiani, Vitalini, and De Deo, three alleged conspirators against Ferdinand IV; after they were sentenced to death, Pagano was deprived of his professorship, arrested, imprisoned and expelled from the kingdom. After fleeing Naples in 1796, he returned in 1799, helped to draft the constitution of the short-lived Neapolitan Republic and was executed after the fall of the republic later that year.
Pagano's other juridical or philosophical works included Progetto di Costituzione della Repubblica napoletana, Sul processo criminale, Esame politico dell’intera legislazione romana, and Discorso sull’origine e natura della poesia. He also translated works from Greek and Latin, and wrote six tragedies (Gerbino, Agamennone, Corradino, Gli esuli tebani, Prometeo and Teodosio) and one comedy (Emilia).
Pagano studied at the University of Naples under Antonio Genovesi
Antonio Genovesi
Antonio Genovesi was an Italian writer on philosophy and political economy.-Biography:Genovesi was born at Castiglione, near Salerno....
, and became professor of moral philosophy and jurisprudence there. Saggi politici (1783-5) provided a philosophical history of the Kingdom of Naples
Kingdom of Naples
The Kingdom of Naples, comprising the southern part of the Italian peninsula, was the remainder of the old Kingdom of Sicily after secession of the island of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers rebellion of 1282. Known to contemporaries as the Kingdom of Sicily, it is dubbed Kingdom of...
, arguing against torture and capital punishment and advocating more benign penal codes. In 1794 he defended Galiani, Vitalini, and De Deo, three alleged conspirators against Ferdinand IV; after they were sentenced to death, Pagano was deprived of his professorship, arrested, imprisoned and expelled from the kingdom. After fleeing Naples in 1796, he returned in 1799, helped to draft the constitution of the short-lived Neapolitan Republic and was executed after the fall of the republic later that year.
Pagano's other juridical or philosophical works included Progetto di Costituzione della Repubblica napoletana, Sul processo criminale, Esame politico dell’intera legislazione romana, and Discorso sull’origine e natura della poesia. He also translated works from Greek and Latin, and wrote six tragedies (Gerbino, Agamennone, Corradino, Gli esuli tebani, Prometeo and Teodosio) and one comedy (Emilia).