Francesco Fuoco (1774–1841) was an Italian

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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 ghost writer.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fuoco, Francesco Italian economists Italian philologists 19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests 1841 deaths 1774 births People from the Province of Caserta