Luigi Miraglia

Luigi Miraglia (1846 to 1903) was an Italian university law professor, rector of the University of Naples and later senator and mayor of Naples. Born in Reggio Calabria, he graduated in law from the University of Naples at twenty. In 1874 he won a public competition for the chair of law, political economy and statistics at the agricultural college at Portici, and in 1876 he moved to the University of Naples, where he was professor of pedagogy, later of philosophy, and taught jurisprudence within the philosophy department. He became dean in 1884 and rector on 8 October 1895, serving until 1897. He was appointed to the Italian Senate on 14 June 1900 and in November 1901 became mayor of Naples, an office he held until his death in 1903. His elder brother Giuseppe Miraglia also became a senator.