Sismondi

[ sis-mon-dee; French sees-mawn-dee ]

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Jean Charles Lé·o·nard Si·monde de [zhah, n, sh, a, r, l ley-aw-, nar, see-, mawnd, d, uh], 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist.

Sismondi

/ sɪsˈmɒndɪ; sismɔ̃di /

SismondiJean Charles Léonard Simonde de17731842MSwissHISTORY: historianSOCIAL SCIENCE: economist Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de (ʒɑ̃ ʃarl leɔnar simɔ̃d də). 1773–1842, Swiss historian and economist. His Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen âge (1807–18) contributed to the movement for Italian unification

Sismondi estimates their number at three or four hundred thousand.

M. Sismondi has given other passages in the third volume of his History of Southern Literature.

A work which will rank with those of Sismondi, Ticknor, and Taine.

According to Sismondi, the French historian, a soapmaker was included in the retinue of Charlemagne.

The greatest generals of Italy and her best soldiers, says Sismondi, took part in the fierce fighting of that day.

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