Onofrio Puglisi

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Onofrio Puglisi, also known as Onofrio Pugliesi Sbernia (died on 11 January 1679), was an Italian mathematician from Palermo. [1]

He was the first writer of accounting books in southern Italy. [2]

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References

  1. Mira, Giuseppe Maria (1881). Bibliografia siciliana ovvero gran dizionario bibliografico (in Italian). Vol. 2. Palermo: G. B. Gaudiano. p. 255.
  2. Fanfani, Amintore (1956). Economia e storia (in Italian). Vol. 3. Rome: Fratelli Bocca. p. 426. Onofrio Pugliesi Sbernia, che è il primo scrittore meridionale di ragioneria