MINGHETTI, Marco (1818-1886). Personal library of Marco Minghetti. Important surviving nucleus of the personal library of Marco Minghetti, comprising more than 230 titles in about 300 volumes, along with a significant collection of brochures, parliamentary speeches, commemorative and iconographic materials, coming from the descendants of the heirs of Pietro Paolo Beccadelli of Bologna, X prince of Camporeale (1852-1918), adoptive son and universal heir of the statist. The collection is a remarkable testimony of the library of study and work of one of the central figures of the political and intellectual life of Risorgimento and post-unitarian Italy. Formed mainly from works published between the 1940s and the 1970s, it reflects with particular consistency the interests that accompanied Minghetti in his formation and subsequent parliamentary and government activity: political economy, public finance, constitutional and administrative law, history of institutions, statistics, political and moral philosophy, social question and relations between the State and the Church. Particularly significant is the core of political economy and finance science, in which some of the major representatives of the European tradition are represented, from Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jean-Baptiste Say and John Stuart Mill to Sismondi, Bastiat, Pellegrino Rossi, Karl Heinrich Rau and Wilhelm Roscher. This is accompanied by an important sector dedicated to state science and representative government, with works by Cesare Balbo, Massimo d'Azeglio, François Guizot, Henry Hallam, Joseph Story and James Kent, as well as treaties of public and administrative law and studies on European and American constitutionalism. Of particular interest to reconstruct the concrete activity of the man of government are the numerous materials related to public finance, taxation and administration: economic and financial treaties coexist with ministerial budgets, statistics, industrial surveys, reports on the Piedmontese finances and studies on the credit and economic conditions of the Italian provinces. The library thus assumes, in some areas, the character of a real bibliographical archive of government, in which theoretical reflection is constantly confronted with the concrete problems of the construction and administration of the new unitary state. The framework completes works dedicated to the agrarian and social question, to the relations between economics, morals and law and to relations between the State and the Church, central themes in the reflection of Minghetti himself. The presence of authors belonging to different traditions - from classical liberalism to German historical school, from liberal Catholicism to the first systematic investigations on the conditions of the working classes - shows a library not limited to a single school, but built through comparison with the main political, economic and social currents of Europe Contemporary. The complex also includes about thirty booklets containing Minghetti's parliamentary speeches, political publications and on occasion, twelve commemorative booklets appeared on the occasion of his death and several newspapers with articles dedicated to his disappearance. The collection is completed by an interesting iconographic nucleus, including a large photographic portrait of Minghetti, some dozens of specimens of his lithographic portraits and a large photo portraiture of Umberto I with dedication to the statesman. Some volumes also preserve dedications and testimonies of origin. The complete catalogue of the works that compose the library, accompanied by an essay dedicated to its formation, consistency and transmission, is available on request. Origin: Marco Minghetti (1818-1886); then Pietro Paolo Beccadelli of Bologna, X prince of Camporeale (1852-1918), adoptive son and universal heir of Minghetti; by descent to the current owners. The origin takes on particular importance in the light of the events of the Minghetti library. Already in 1880 the statesman had donated to the Municipal Library of the Archiginnasio of Bologna 7.822 nineteenth-century brochures; at his death he also assigned to the same institution his own papers, from which the current Marco Minghetti Fund originated. A further nucleus of the personal library is now kept at the Nicola Matteucci Library of the University of Bologna. The present collection is therefore a distinct component of the historical dispersion of the library, which remains in the descendants of the adoptive son Paolo Beccadelli of Camporeale. For the list of volumes and a full description of the library please contact the department. Marco Minghetti (Bologna, 1818 - Rome, 1886) was an economist, a politician and one of the greatest exponents of moderate Italian liberalism. Protagonist of the Risorgimento and the construction of the unitary state, he was several times minister and twice President of the Council of the Kingdom of Italy. His political activity was accompanied by a vast intellectual production dedicated to the economy, administration, representative institutions and relations between morals, law and economic science. The library presented here gives back with particular immediacy this dual dimension of scholar and man of government: not an antique collection constituted according to collectible criteria, but a library of reading, comparison and work, in which the great traditions of the European political economy coexist with legal treaties, statistics, parliamentary documents and publications Administrative. As a whole, it constitutes a significant material witness to the political culture and intellectual instruments through which one of the central figures of the historical Right faced the problems of the construction of the Italian liberal state. (300)