MAURI, ANGELO. - Lawyer and professor, b. in Milano on 21 Dec. 1873, d. there on 17 Nov. 1936. He was active in Catholic youth Action with F. Meda and in journalism with d. Albertario. A favorite pupil of Toniolo, he was an esteemed scholar of the social sciences.
For several years, after De Matheis, he was president of the F.U.C.I., and in 1903 he assumed the editorship of the Momento of Torino, a Catholic daily newspaper. Provincial councillor of Milano (1902) and subsequently deputy to Parliament for the XXII-XXVII legislatures, a founding member of the Partito popolare italiano, in 1921 he became Minister of Agriculture and vice-president of the Chamber. With the advent of Fascism, he withdrew into private life, returning to his preferred studies, and was appointed to teach economic sciences at the Catholic University of Milano.
He wrote: The Working Citizens of Attica in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries (Milano 1895); Free Wage Labour and Servile Competition in Athens (Roma 1895); L'Hoprecht in Italy (Milano 1895); Rural Absenteeism (Roma 1895); The Rural Crisis in Italy (Milano 1896); Small Landed Property in Italy (Roma 1896); The Oil War (Monza 1923); The History of the Doctrines of Social Economics (Roma 1924); The New Developments of Agricultural Economics (Milano 1927); The Economic Doctrine of Pietro Verri (there 1929), and various articles in the Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali.