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Alessandro Torlonia: The Pope’s Banker

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This book provides a vivid biography of a towering Italian banker, pioneer and entrepreneur. It weaves the entrepreneurial ventures of Alessandro Torlonia (1800-1886) through the narratives of business and politics in the Nineteenth century, the growth of European financial markets and the decline of Papal power during the Italian Risorgimento. The discussion is founded in rigorous historical research using original sources such as the Archivum Secretum Vaticanum papers and other official documents; the archives of the Torlonia family, and of the Rothschild bank in Paris; memoirs; correspondences, and newspapers. Through this book readers learn that Alessandro Torlonia was a man of many faces, who was one of the most complex and influential characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century. Felisini also provides an expert critique of the financial history of the papacy: an area of heightened interest given the notoriety of relations between the Holy See and its bankers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focal topics such as the history of European elites and the history of European financial markets will have an interdisciplinary appeal for scholars and researchers.

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Series Title

Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

Call Number

332.4 FEL a

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2017

Collation

XV, 269

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-41998-5

Classification

332.4

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

Financial Services
Financial History

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Statement of Responsibility

Daniela Felisini

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umi

Source

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-319-41998-5.pdf?pdf=button

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