Private Bankers in the Italian 19th Century

Luciano Maffi is Research Fellow in Economic History at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He teaches Economic History at the Catholic University in Milan. He was previously a research fellow at the University of Genoa and at the University of Brescia. He deals with economic, financial and social history, with particular attention to the private bankers in XIX century.

• Chapter 1. The bankers.- Chapter 2. The Parodi Bankers.- Chapter 3. Banking Institutions.- Chapter 4. Financial intermediation: the Rothschilds and the private bankers in the Kingdom of Sardinia.- Chapter 5. Private bankers in the economic and political system of unified Italy.- Chapter 6. The Parodis after the Italian unification.