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Francesco Mario Pagano

1748–1799 · 18th century

Francesco Mario Pagano was a Neapolitan jurist and Enlightenment philosopher, author of the Saggi politici. A leader of the Parthenopean Republic of 1799, he drafted its constitution, which drew on French models but added an assembly of ephors to guard it. When the Bourbon monarchy was restored that summer he was executed in Naples with other republican leaders.

Francesco Mario Pagano
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Parthenopean Republic

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