<title>Abstract</title> Even if Pareto never worked in public finance, he had some influence on the Italian public finance scholars. This paper aims to direct new light onto such a methodological influence. Firstly, it is pointed out that the Paretian idea of science deeply influenced the late scholars of the...

The paper reviews some of the most representative Italian scholars, starting from De Viti de Marco and ending with Fasiani, conventionally considered the first and the last scholar of the Italian tradition. Their positions are discussed firstly in terms of the economic role they attributed to...