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Giuseppe Zurlo
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MonarchFerdinand I of the Two Sicilies
MinisterMinister of Justice and Worship (February 1809 – November 1809);
Minister of the Interior (5 November 1809 – May 1815)
Preceded byDiego Naselli
Andrea Francesco
Succeeded byRaimondo De Gennaro
MonarchGioacchino Murat
Succeeded byDonato Tommasi
Personal details
PartyMurat Conservatories
ProfessionJurist

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

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

Biography

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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.

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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.[7]

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.[8]

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.[9][10]

Death

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He died in Naples in 1828, his remains are preserved there, in the ossuary of the SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini brotherhood.[11][12]

Assignments

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Writings

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Books

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Letters

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

Bibliography

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Historical sources

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Archival sources

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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.

Dedications

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  • 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.[15][16]
  • 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 19 October 1997, by the then provincial and municipal administration of the region.[17]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Francesco Daniele; et al. (Palatine Printing House). "ALL'ECCELLENZA DEL SIGNOR FRANCESCO ZUROLO, COMMENDATORE DEL REAL ORDINE DELLE DUE SICILE, CONSIGLIERE DI STATO, E MINISTRO DELL'INTERNO" [TO THE EXCELLENCE OF MR FRANCESCO ZUROLO, COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL ORDER OF THE TWO SICILES, STATE COUNCILOR, AND MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR]. In in the Palatine Printing House (ed.). Pe' funerali dell'eccellentissimo signor Cristoforo Saliceti ... celebrati nella chiesa di S. Giacomo degli Spagnuoli il di 29. di Dicembre 1809 inscrizioni di Francesco Daniele [For the funeral of the most excellent Mr Cristoforo Saliceti ... celebrated in the church of S. Giacomo degli Spagnuoli on 29 December 1809 inscriptions by Francesco Daniele] (in Latin). nella Stamperia Palatina. p. III.
  2. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2021). "IV". Giuseppe Zurlo, ministro del Regno delle Due Sicilie, fonti per la storia degli Uomini Illustri del Regno di Napoli [Giuseppe Zurlo, minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, sources for the history of the Illustrious Men of the Kingdom of Naples] (in Italian). See the pictorial work of Domenico Marrazzo da Casandrino, representing Count Giuseppe Zurlo and his copper engraving, executed in 1839. p. 118.
  3. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "IV". Giuseppe Zurlo, ministro del Regno delle Due Sicilie, fonti per la storia degli Uomini Illustri del Regno di Napoli [Giuseppe Zurlo, Minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, sources for the history of the Illustrious Men of the Kingdom of Naples] (Paperback) (in Italian). p. 118.
  4. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (12 November 2024). "Famiglia Zurolo" [Family Zurolo]. Nobili Napoletani (in Italian). Giuseppe, count (mp.), minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, (*Baranello, 1757 † Naples, 1828). Naples (NA). Retrieved 22 November 2024.
  5. ^ Vittorio Gnocchini (2005). L'Italia dei liberi muratori, brevi biografie di massoni famosi [Italy of Freemasons, short biographies of famous Masons] (in Italian). Mimesis. p. 279. ISBN 978-88-8483-362-4. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  6. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "IV". Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Casata Zurolo. Origins and Development of a Feudal Family of Southern Italy] (in Italian). p. 118.
  7. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "Capitolo VII" [Chapter VII]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Casata Zurolo. Origins and development of a feudal family from Southern Italy] (in Italian). 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. p. 220.
  8. ^ Alessandro Cutolo (1937). "ZURLO, Giuseppe, Enciclopedia Italiana (1937)" [ZURLO, Giuseppe, Italian Encyclopedia (1937)]. Treccani (in Italian). The entire story of the Italian minister and jurist Giuseppe Zurlo. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  9. ^ Francesco Eriberto D'Ippolito (2004). L'amministrazione produttiva, crisi della mediazione togata e nuovi compiti dello Stato nell'opera di Giuseppe Zurlo (1759–1828) [Productive administration, crisis of professional mediation and new tasks of the State in the work of Giuseppe Zurlo (1759–1828)] (in Italian). Thus ended his long activity as a man of government. He had been ill for some time and had lived apart from him since then. A member of the Academy of Sciences, he had been its president since 1827. Poor and in debt, he wrote to Teodoro Monticelli, who was its secretary, that he could not attend the solemn sessions due to a lack of suitable clothing. Naples (NA): Jovane. pp. 22 and later. ISBN 9788824315142. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  10. ^ Staff of Treccani. "Zurlo, Giuseppe, conte" [Zurlo, Giuseppe, count]. Treccani (in Italian). Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  11. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2021). Giuseppe Zurlo, ministro del Regno delle Due Sicilie, fonti per la storia degli Uomini Illustri del Regno di Napoli [Giuseppe Zurlo, Minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Sources for the History of the Illustrious Men of the Kingdom of Naples] (in Italian).
  12. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "I-parte 1" [Part I 1]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Casata Zurolo. Origins and Development of a Feudal Family of Southern Italy] (in Italian). …and in Naples where his remains are preserved, in the ossuary of the confraternity SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini. p. 18.
  13. ^ Anna Maria Rao (2020). "ZURLO, Giuseppe, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 100 (2020)" [ZURLO, Giuseppe, Biographical Dictionary of Italians – Volume 100 (2020)]. Treccani (in Italian). The entire story of the Italian minister and jurist Giuseppe Zurlo. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  14. ^ Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi (1944). Alessandro Cutolo (ed.). La mia vita [My life] (in Italian). 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.
  15. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "I-parte 1" [Part I 1]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Casata Zurolo. Origins and Development of a Feudal Family of Southern Italy] (in Italian). …in Baranello, Largo Conte Zurlo, formerly Largo Zullo (see sculptural bronze bust with dedication to the minister of the Kingdom of Naples Count Giuseppe Zurlo (†1828), and in Naples where his remains are preserved, in the ossuary of the confraternity SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini. p. 18.
  16. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "V-parte 2" [V-part 2]. Casata Zurolo. Origini e sviluppo di una famiglia feudale del Meridione d'Italia [Casata Zurolo. Origins and development of a feudal family of Southern Italy] (in Italian). Facade of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo with a bronze sculptural bust in front, depicting the illustrious citizen of Baranello, Count Giuseppe Zurlo (†10-XI-1828), created in the second half of the twentieth century by the artist from Molise Giuseppe Calgione. p. 180.
  17. ^ Staff of CHI ERA COSTUI?. "Giuseppe Zurlo". CHI ERA COSTUI? (in Italian). See the data entered in the short bibliographical sheet of the minister Giuseppe Zurlo and that concerning the plaque in his honor installed in Baranello, in front of the rebuilt church of San Michele Arcangelo in Baranello. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
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  • Francesco Mendozzi (27 February 2017). "Anno Domini 1811: i potenti fratelli Biase e Giuseppe Zurlo a Capracotta" [Anno Domini 1811: the powerful Biase brothers and Giuseppe Zurlo in Capracotta]. Amici di Capracotta. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  • Staff of CHI ERA COSTUI?. "Giuseppe Zurlo". CHI ERA COSTUI? (in Italian). See the data entered in the short bibliographical sheet of the minister Giuseppe Zurlo and that concerning the plaque in his honor installed in Baranello, in front of the rebuilt church of San Michele Arcangelo in Baranello. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
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