Naples’ enlightened rationalist intellectuals became the Jacobins of the 1799 republic

Evidence

The abbe Galiani (1728-1787) was a Neapolitan economist (opposed to free trade and the theories of the physiocrats) and man of letters. Noted as a wit, he was typical of the enlightened, rationalist intellectual stratum of Naples which was to become the “Jacobins” of the Parthenopean Republic of 1799. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2028

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