Francesco Fuoco (22 January 1774 – 2 April 1841) was an

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and

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. Some of his works were published under the name of Giuseppe De Welz, a banker from

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, who hired Fuoco as a

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Italian economists Italian philologists 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests 1841 deaths 1774 births People from the Province of Caserta {{Italy-RC-clergy-stub