Giuseppe Zurlo

Giuseppe Zurlo
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
Political 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

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.

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]

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]

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.
  • ; 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

  • Pasquale Stanislao Mancini (1838). "Giuseppe Zurlo" [Giuseppe Zurlo]. L'Omnibus pittoresco, enciclopedia letteraria ed artistica · Volume 1 [The Picturesque Omnibus, literary and artistic encyclopedia · Volume 1] (in Italian). nr. 45. pp. 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375 and 376. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  • Luigi Alberto Trotta (1870). Unione typ.-publishing press (ed.). Vita di Giuseppe Zurlo [Life of Giuseppe Zurlo] (in Italian). Turin (TO). Retrieved 5 September 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Lydia Garofalo (1932). Giuseppe Zurlo (1759-1828) [Giuseppe Zurlo (1759-1828)] (in Italian). Naples (NA) - Perugia (PG).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Giambattista Masciotta (1984) [1952]. Il Molise dalle origini ai nostri giorni, vol. III: Il Circondario d’Isernia [Molise from its origins to the present day, vol. III: The District of Isernia] (in Italian). Cava De' Tirreni (SA): Lampo. p. 145. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  • Savarese Giacomo; Aldo Romano (1941). Tra rivoluzioni e reazioni. Ricordi su Giuseppe Zurlo (1759-1828). A cura di Aldo Romano [Between revolutions and reactions. Memories of Giuseppe Zurlo (1759-1828). Edited by Aldo Romano]. essays (in Italian). Turin (TO): Einaudi.
  • Pasquale Villani (1955). Giuseppe Zurlo e la crisi dell'antico regime nel regno di Napoli [Giuseppe Zurlo and the crisis of the ancient regime in the kingdom of Naples] (in Italian). Vol. VII. Naples (NA). pp. 57, 127 and 158. Retrieved 6 September 2024.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Angela Valente (1965). Gioacchino Murat e l’Italia meridionale [Joachim Murat and Southern Italy] (in Italian). Turin (TO).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Pasquale Villani (1977). Mezzogiorno tra riforme e rivoluzione [Midday between reforms and revolution] (in Italian). Rome (RM) - Bari (BA). pp. 213–330.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Anna Maria Rao (1984). L'"Amaro della feudalità." La devoluzione di Arnone e la questione feudale a Napoli alla fine del '700 [The "Bitterness of Feudalism." The Devolution of Arnone and the Feudal Question in Naples at the End of the 18th Century] (E-book) (in Italian). Naples (NA): Guida. pp. 137, 163, 167, 268 and 380. ISBN 9788870422658. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  • Ilaria Zilli (2000). Luca Michelini; Marco Enrico Luigi Guidi; Massimo M. Augello; Terenzio Maccabelli (eds.). Associazionismo economico e diffusione dell'economia politica nell'Italia dell'Ottocento dalle società economico-agrarie alle associazioni di economisti · Volume 1 [Economic associationism and the diffusion of political economy in 19th-century Italy from economic-agrarian societies to associations of economists · Volume 1] (in Italian). Vol. 1. F. Angeli. p. 319. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  • 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). Naples (NA): Jovane. pp. 22 and later. ISBN 9788824315142. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  • Vittorio Gnocchini (2005). L'Italia dei liberi muratori, brevi biografie di massoni famosi [The Italy of free masons, short biographies of famous freemasons] (in Italian). Mimesis. p. 279. ISBN 9788884833624. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  • Nico Perrone (2006). La Loggia della Philantropia. Un religioso danese a Napoli prima della rivoluzione. Con la corrispondenza massonica e altri documenti [The Lodge of Philanthropy. A Danish religious man in Naples before the revolution. With Masonic correspondence and other documents] (in Italian). Palermo (PA): Sellerio. ISBN 9788838921414. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  • Ruggiero Di Castiglione (13 September 2014). La Massoneria nelle due Sicilie Vol. II, E i fratelli meridionali del '700 [Freemasonry in the Two Sicilies Vol. II, And the Southern Brothers of the 18th Century] (E-book) (in Italian). Naples (NA): Gangemi Editore. pp. 390, 391, 392, 393 and 394. ISBN 8849224001. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  • 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).
  • Gennaro Zurolo (2024). "I-parte 1, V-parte 2 e VII" [Part I 1, V-part 2 and VII]. 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). pp. 18, 180 and 220.

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.
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

  • 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]

See also

Notes

  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. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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).
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Gennaro Zurolo (2024). 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ 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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