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Author-Name: Niccolò Guasti
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Author-Workplace-Name: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 
Title: Tra mercantilismo e riformismo illuministico: i Gesuiti spagnoli espulsi e il pensiero economico iberico nell'Italia del Settecento
(Between mercantilism and reformism: exiled Spanish jesuits and the Iberian economic thought in eighteenth-century Italy)
Abstract: The Spanish Jesuits exiled by Charles III in 1767 played a main part in spreading Iberian culture
in eighteenth-century Italy. The circulation of economic ideas and reform projects
between Spain and Italy is one of the most important and enduring aspects of the cultural
mediation exerted by the exiled Jesuits during the last three decades of the eighteenth century.
The two chief elements which convinced the Jesuits to foster Spanish economic
thought in Italy were their attempt to obtain a pension for their ‘literary’ merits, and a desire
to establish a dialogue with Italian enlightened and open-minded elites. The presence of an
utilitarian material motive, therefore, does not exclude the existence of a cultural and ideological
aim consisting in Christianising the Enlightenment after cancelling its most subversive
messages. This strategy convinced exiled Spanish Jesuits to deal with economics, especially
re-evaluating mercantilistic policies in the eve of the French Revolution. 
Classification-JEL: B11
Keywords: Exiled Jesuits ; Spain; Charles III ; eighteenth-century economic reforms ; spread
of economic ideas ; age of the Enlightenment (Gesuiti espulsi ; Spagna ; Carlo III ; riformismo economico del xviii secolo ;
circolazione delle idee economiche ; età dei Lumi)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 11-49
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Year: 2005
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=200506302&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:13:y:2005:2:1:p:11-49