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Alessandro Torlonia - The Pope's Banker (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Alessandro Torlonia - The Pope's Banker (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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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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