Carlo Ilarione Petitti di Roreto
Carlo Ilarione Petitti count of Roreto (21 October 1790 – 10 April 1850) was an Italian economist, academic, writer, counsellor of state, and senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He is seen as a prominent figure in the Italian Risorgimento. Life Carlo Ilarione Petitti di Roreto was born in Turin on 21 October 1790, son of the count Giuseppe Antonio Petitti di Roreto (1729–1795) and of the noblewoman Innocenza Gabriella Ferrero di Ponziglione e Borgo d'Ales (1767–1797). In 1813 at Alessandria he married the noblewoman Maria Teresa Gabriella Genna of the counts of Cocconato (1791–1826); the marriage produced four children: Alessandro (1813–1841), Agostino (1814–1890), Maurizio (1816–1852), and Giuseppe (1824–1886). After graduating in law from the University of Genoa in 1816, he entered the administration of the Kingdom of Sardinia, for which he had already worked on an unpaid basis, becoming vice-intendant general of Savoy at Chambéry. In 1819 he was made intendant general of Asti and in 1826 of Cuneo. In 1831 he was appointed to the newly founded Council of State, an institution whose creation he had promoted to the king; in 1836 he became vice-president of the higher commission of statistics, also established by Charles Albert of Savoy,