Bernardo Tanucci

Bernardo Tanucci
Bernardo Tanucci
Born	20 February 1698; Stia, near Arezzo (Tuscany), Italy
Died	29 April 1783 (aged 85); Naples, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	University of Pisa
Occupation	statesman
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

Bernardo Tanucci (20 February 1698 – 29 April 1783) was an Italian statesman, who brought an enlightened absolutism style of government to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for Charles III and his son Ferdinand IV.

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