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Bernardo Tanucci | |
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Died | 29 April 1783 Naples, Italy | (aged 85)
Nationality | Italian |
Education | University of Pisa |
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Known for | establishing the supremacy of a modernized State over the Catholic Church, abolishing the feudal privileges of Papacy and the nobility in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies |
Parent(s) | Giuliano Tanucci and Lucrezia Tanucci (née Tommasi) |
Bernardo Tanucci (20 February 1698 – 29 April 1783) was an Italian jurist and statesman, who brought an enlightened absolutism style of government to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for Charles III and his son Ferdinand IV.[1]