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Once King, Charles chose export collaborators,
the most famous among which was Marquis Bernardo Tanucci, from Stia,
in the province of Arezzo, professor at the University of Pisa. Tanucci,
not without difficulties, was able to unravel the chaotic administrative
situation becoming, in practical terms, the real interpreter of the
government, while Charles preferred to dedicate himself to hunting.
He was minister of the State Department in Naples, Minister of the
Justice and of the Royal Family, contributing to strengthening the
new reign’s independence. He inspired a policy based on reforms
as far as the relationship with the Church was concerned (1741 Concordat;
expulsion of the Jesuits and seizure of their wealth in 1759) and
the sector of public finances.
In his renewal program, Tanucci was inspired by the activity of economists
and jurists such as Antonio Genovesi, Gaetano Filangieri and Fernando
Galiani, and was about to give a new face to southern Italy. Despite
his good will, the task was among the most difficult; southern Italy
had been for long in extremely backward position.
Tanucci’s philosophy was based on ideological, cultural, political
and institutional reformism of ‘700 Naples. He even wished to
solve the problem of turning Naples into a liveable city, but he ran
into the tragic epoch of Naples Republic and its bloody conclusion.
Since then, the break between Jacobean intellectuals on one side,
and the Bourbon family on the other, among different social classes,
between the city and the countryside, was impossible to recompose.
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