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 one of the most complex and influential characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century. The book 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.

Felisini, D. (2016). Alessandro Torlonia. The Pope's Banker. Palgrave Macmillan [10.1007/978-3-319-41998-5].

Alessandro Torlonia. The Pope's Banker

FELISINI, DANIELA
2016-01-01

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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 one of the most complex and influential characters of Italian economic life in the nineteenth century. The book 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.
2016
Settore SECS-P/12 - STORIA ECONOMICA
English
Rilevanza internazionale
Monografia
Business history
Papal States
European Financial Market 19 century
Biography
Banking History
https://www.palgrave.com/jp/book/9783319419978
Felisini, D. (2016). Alessandro Torlonia. The Pope's Banker. Palgrave Macmillan [10.1007/978-3-319-41998-5].
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