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Giuseppe Zurlo

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Giuseppe Zurlo
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Giuseppe Zurlo, also called Giuseppe Zurolo,[1][2] (Baranello, 6 November 1757 – Naples, 10 November 1828) was an Italian jurist and politician.

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He is a descendant of the noble Neapolitan Zurolo family, also known as Zurlo family.

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He born in Baranello in 1757, he descendant of the noble Neapolitan Zurolo family, also known as Zurlo family.[3][4]

A member of the Freemasonry, in 1784 he became Scottish Master of the aristocratic lodge La Vittoria of Naples, elevated by the Grand Lodge of London to a provincial Grand Lodge. In 1813 he was Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Naples.[5]

From a young age he held highly prestigious judicial and administrative positions within the administration of the Kingdom of Naples, up to that of Minister of Finance, under Ferdinand I, and Minister of the Interior during the French government (1806 –1815) and during the riots of 1820. As Minister of the Interior, Giuseppe managed the process of abolition of feudalism, decreed with a series of provisions approved by the sovereigns Joseph Bonaparte and Gioacchino Murat between 1806 and 1811.

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Copper plate engraving from 1839 depicting Count Giuseppe Zurlo.[6]

He decreed the transfer of disputes between the barons and the municipality to the feudal commission, removing them from the ordinary judiciary. The commission, an extraordinary judiciary whose procedures reflected the vertical logic typical of the executive and whose sentences were final, proved to be much faster and more effective in resolving disputes and in executing the law.

A staunch supporter of the need for a radical change in the system of government, Giuseppe, through his personal life experience, knew first-hand the ills that afflicted the populations of the South. In addition to the economic and social problems of his homeland, Molise, he had a thorough knowledge of the conditions of Calabria, where he stayed on two occasions: the first time, as a member of the commission set up to investigate the earthquake of 1783, and a second time, in 1790, when he was a judge of the Gran Corte della Vicaria.

On this occasion he was given the task of carrying out a survey of the "defenses" of the Regia Sila and a verification of the occupations and usurpations of various lands carried out by local owners to the detriment of the royal state property.[7]

In 1827 he became the president of the Academy of Sciences. He remained poor, heavily in debt and ill, in his last phase of life and no longer attended the sessions of the Academy.[8]

Death

He died in Naples in 1828, his remains are preserved there, in the ossuary of the SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini brotherhood.[9][10]

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Coat of arms of the Zurlo or Zullo or Zurolo family (Baranello branch): red, with a gold cuneate band. and Idem: red, with a gold band bordered in blue flanked by a star (6 rays), with a chief sewn in red charged with five silver stars arranged in a band surrounded by a silver and red chequered border - coat of arms granted together with the title of Count, by virtue of the Royal Decree of 25 March 1811, by Gioacchino Murat.[11]
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Assignments

Writings

Books

  • Giuseppe Zurlo (1811). typography of Angelo Trani (ed.). Rapporto sullo stato del regno di Napoli, dopo l'avvenimento al trono di S.M. il re Gioacchino Napoleone, per tutto l'anno 1809, presentato al Re ... dal ministro dell'Interno. [Signé] [Report on the state of the kingdom of Naples after the accession to the throne of His Majesty King Joachim Napoleon for the entire year 1809 ... , Naples, typ. A. Trani, 1811] (in Italian). Naples (NA). Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  • Giuseppe Zurlo; Renato Lalli (1978). Rapporto sullo stato del regno di Napoli nel 1809 [Report on the state of the kingdom of Naples in 1809] (in Italian). Naples (NA): Marinelli. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  • Giuseppe Zurlo (1812). typography of Angelo Trani (ed.). Rapporto sullo stato del regno di Napoli per gli anni 1810, e 1811 presentato al re nel suo consiglio di stato dal Ministro dell'interno [Report on the state of the kingdom of Naples for the years 1810 and 1811 presented to the king in his council of state by the Minister of the Interior] (in Italian). Naples (NA). Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  • Giuseppe Zurlo; Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1820). Napoli 18 novembre 1820. Eccellentissimi signori Allorchè furono istallate le Deputazioni provinciali ... [Naples 18 November 1820. Most excellent gentlemen When the provincial Deputations were installed ...] (in Italian). Naples (NA). Retrieved 9 September 2024.

Letters

  • Giuseppe Zurlo. Lettere a Monticelli [Letters to Monticelli] (in Italian). Naples (NA): National Library of Naples.

Bibliography

Historical sources

Archival sources

  • Archivio di Stato di Napoli, Collegio dei Dottori [State Archives of Naples, College of Doctors]. 106/131 (in Italian).
  • Notizie su la condotta politica di Giuseppe Zurlo [News on Giuseppe Zurlo's political conduct] (in Italian) (3nd ed.). 1820. Retrieved 10 September 2024.

Secondary sources

  • Per la promozione del signor D. Gioseppe Z. alla carica di Presidente della Regia Camera ed avvocato fiscale del Regal Patrimonio [For the promotion of Mr. D. Giuseppe Z. to the position of President of the Royal Chamber and tax lawyer of the Royal Patrimony] (in Italian). Naples (NA). 1798.
  • Elogio del conte Giuseppe Zurlo ordinato dall’Accademia delle Scienze della Società Reale Borbonica [In Praise of Count Giuseppe Zurlo Ordered by the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Bourbon Society] (in Italian). Naples (NA). 1832.
  • Supplimento del Bullettino della Commissione feudale, vol. XVII: Continuazione della soluzione de’ dubbj surti nell’esecuzione delle decisioni della Commissione prima e dopo del Real decreto dei 3 luglio 1810 [Supplement to the Bulletin of the Feudal Commission, vol. XVII: Continuation of the solution of the doubts that arose in the execution of the decisions of the Commission before and after the Royal Decree of 3 July 1810] (in Italian). Trani Printing House. 1842. pp. 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 299, 300, 301 and 302.
  • Carlo De Nicola; Giuseppe De Blasiis (1906). Diario napoletano 1798-1825, Parte I-III. · Volume 3 [Neapolitan Diary 1798-1825, Part I-III. · Volume 3] (in Italian). Vol. 3. Neapolitan society of national history. pp. 97, 200 and 335. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  • Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi; et al. (Alessandro Cutolo) (1944). Alessandro Cutolo (ed.). La mia vita [My life] (in Italian). Milan (MI): U. Hoepli. pp. 14, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 133, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 156, 157, 158, 173 and 203. Retrieved 4 September 2024.

Yearbooks and essays

  • Pasquale Villani (1955). Giuseppe Zurlo e la crisi dell’antico regime nel Regno di Napoli [Giuseppe Zurlo and the crisis of the old regime in the Kingdom of Naples] (in Italian) (VII ed.). Turin (TO): Annuario dell’Istituto storico italiano per l’età moderna e contemporanea. pp. 55–168.

Magazines

  • Anna Maria Rao (1986). "La prima restaurazione borbonica" [The first Bourbon restoration]. Storia del Mezzogiorno (in Italian). IV, tome 2. Rome (RM): 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573 and 574.
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The restored bronze sculptural bust with dedication to the minister of the Kingdom of Naples, by Count Giuseppe Zurlo, located in the square of the same name, in front of the rebuilt church of San Michele Arcangelo in Baranello.
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Dedications

  • In front of the rebuilt church of San Michele Arcangelo in Baranello, there is a town square that bears his name Largo Conte Zurlo, formerly Largo Zullo.[14][15]
  • There is a monument with a bust depicting the minister of the same name in Largo Conte Zurlo. The monument was also rebuilt after the earthquake in southern Calabria in 1783, which also hit the Molise region. In the monument there are two tombstones, in which the one written with Roman numerals indicates the original date of foundation, dating back to 1892, while the other written in Italian indicates the date of its reconstruction, with the inauguration on October 19, 1997, by the then provincial and municipal administration of the region.[16]
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