Giuseppe Maria Galanti (1743–1806) was an Italian historian and economist, in the Kingdom of Naples.
Galanti was born in Santa Croce del Sannio, Molise. He was a follower of Pietro Giannone[1] and studied under Antonio Genovesi.[2] While young he was influenced by independent-minded priests and came to hate feudalism; moving as a boy to Naples, he came to know the ideas of Gaetano Filangieri as well as those of Genovesi.[3]
With the title Visitatore generale del Regno, he surveyed the state of the kingdom, and proposed agricultural and economic reforms. A critic of the top layers of Neapolitan society, he considered them too little interested in commerce.[4]
(critical edition, Maria Rosaria Pelizzari, 2000)