Clyst St. George, Oct. 10. 1851.
_Italian Writer on Political Economy--Death of Carli_ (Vol. iv., p.
175.).--It is inquired, "What was the first work by an Italian writer on
any element of political economy? and in what year did Carli, the
celebrated economist, die?" The latter question I at once answer by
stating that it was on the 22d of February, 1795, in his seventy-fifth
year, having been born at Cape d'Istria, an episcopal town of Illyria,
April, 1720, of a noble family. His collected works, embracing almost
the _omne scibile_, were published in 1784-1794, nineteen octavo
volumes, at Milan, _Delle Opere del Signor Gianrinaldo Conte Carli,
Presidente Emerito del Supremo Conciglio di Pubblica Economia, &c._ The
first publication, confined to fifteen volumes, was extended to nineteen
by him, _Delle Antichita Italiche, con Appendice, de' Documenti, &c._,
1793-1795. Few writers have exceeded him in the variety of his subjects,
which combined the drama, poetry, translations, history, philosophy, the
monetary system, political economy, &c. As to your correspondent ALPHA'S
first inquiry, it will be satisfactorily answered by consulting the
collection printed at Milan in 1803, _Scrittori Classici Italiani_,
first volume of the fifty in 8vo., to which the entire extend up to that
period, since when several have appeared.