The book analyses the role of private bankers who were pivotal in modernizing the economic and financial system of Italy in the XIX century. To achieve this they needed to interact with the international haute banque to organize and place the public loans and the large investments associated...

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....