03534nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-319-41998-5 DE-He213 20210625223300.0 cr nn 008mamaa 170201s2016 gw | s |||| 0|eng d 9783319419985 978-3-319-41998-5 10.1007/978-3-319-41998-5 doi HG171 KFF bicssc BUS023000 bisacsh KFF thema 332.09 23 Felisini, Daniela. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Alessandro Torlonia [electronic resource] : The Pope’s Banker / by Daniela Felisini. 1st ed. 2016. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. XV, 269 p. 12 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, 2662-5164 Introduction -- Chapter 1: The origins and rise of the Torlonia family and bank -- Chapter 2: Alessandro Torlonia: a passion of business -- Chapter 3: The Pope’s banker -- Chapter 4: A banker of European stature -- Chapter 5: Prince and entrepreneur -- Chapter 6: Torlonia, witness to a century. 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. . Finance—History. Banks and banking. Italy—History. Financial History. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/617000 Banking. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/626010 History of Italy. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717050 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783319419978 Printed edition: 9783319419992 Printed edition: 9783319824758 Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance, 2662-5164 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41998-5 ZDB-2-ECF ZDB-2-SXEF Economics and Finance (SpringerNature-41170) Economics and Finance (R0) (SpringerNature-43720)