Luigi Luzzatti was born in Venice, Italy back in 1841. He studied law at the University of Padua where he attracted the attention of the Austrian police because of his lectures on the political economy. In 1867 he was appointed professor of constitutional law at Padua where he was transferred to the University of Rome.
In 1865, he founded the Banca Popolare di Milano, the second cooperative bank in Italy. In 1869, he was appointed the ministry of agriculture and commerce, in which capacity he abolished government control over commercial companies and promoted a state inquire into the condition of industry. In 1878, he complied the Italian customs tariff, subsequently taking a leading part in the negotiations of all the commercial treaties between Italy and other countries. He died in Rome in 1927, he was 86.
What you may not know about Luigi is that he served as the 20th Prime Minister of Italy. He was the first Venetian and second Jewish Prime Minister of Italy.
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