About

Recent Posts

Archives

May 2013

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
      1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  
Blog powered by TypePad
Subscribe to this blog's feed

« Papers on the 'Good' Economy | Main | Piazza Luigi Einaudi »

Frederic Bastiat in Rome

|Peter Boettke|

I am presently in Rome, and besides my visits to the main sights, I also saw the burial place of Frederic Bastiat.

100_0730




Posted by on October 05, 2011 at 05:02 PM |

|

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451eb0069e201539217ae45970b

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Frederic Bastiat in Rome:

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Nice photo, Pete. I wonder what other tourists must have thought as you snapped a photo of the floor instead of the walls carrying Caravaggio paintings!

Posted by: Roger Koppl | October 06, 2011 at 09:37 AM

Wow. Wish I'd known about that when I was in Rome. I only saw the apartment of Goethe. :-) I left a poem in the signature book.

Posted by: Troy Camplin | October 06, 2011 at 12:07 PM

Forgive my ignorance, but why was he buried in Rome? He was French...

Posted by: senyoreconomist | October 07, 2011 at 04:49 AM

I came across this quite accidently a few years ago. It was quite exciting to see it.

Bastiat went to Rome (on doctor's advice for better climate) to recover from illness. Perhaps he fell in love with the city.

Btw, here is the translation:

HERE LIES

FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT
Representative of the people to Parliament,
Correspondent of the Institute of France,
born in Bayonne in 1801,
died in Rome on 24th December 1850.

Parliament will miss such an enlightened and conscientious representative, political economy, such an eminent exponent of its purest doctrines and of the harmony of its laws. His family will only find consolation for such a painful separation in the memory of his Christian death

in pace

Posted by: Mario Rizzo | October 07, 2011 at 08:37 AM

The comments to this entry are closed.