Giovanni Arrivabene, count, an Italian political economist, born in Mantua in 1789. In 1821 he was imprisoned seven months in Venice for refusing to denounce Silvio Pellico, of which 40 years later he published an account (D'une epoque de ma vie, Brussels, 1861). Sentenced to death by contumacy in 1824, he spent some time in France and England, and has been since 1827 a resident and since 1840 a naturalized citizen of Belgium. He translated into Italian (Lugano, 1836) Mill's "Elements," and into French Senior's "Fundamental Principles of Political Economy;" and has written on benevolent societies and the amelioration of the working classes, besides Situation economique de la Belgique (Brussels, 1843).