Governor Ignazio Visco spoke at the conference on the book ‘Gustavo Bonelli. Un giurista in Banca d’Italia’, dedicated to Gustavo Bonelli, General Counsel of the Bank of Italy from 1918 to 1926 and considered, together with Cesare Vivante, as one of the founding fathers of Italian commercial law.
The conference presented the book, edited by C. Angelici, O. Capolino, P. Ciocca, M. Perassi, M. Stella Richter Jr and G. Terranova, and published by the Bank of Italy.
Ninety years after Bonelli’s death, this book, based on the historical and economic context of his time, covers the issues he examined in his copious works, which continue to be of great cultural significance. The work includes a selection of excerpts from his writings.
Gustavo Bonelli was a dedicated scholar and a prolific writer. His academic work began in 1874, when he graduated from the University of Perugia, and continued until his death in 1926.
He wrote over a hundred articles on various fields of law, ranging from the fundamental rights of the person (especially in his early writings) to the study of legal entities and companies, bankruptcy, promissory notes and banking. Gustavo Bonelli was one of the editors of a complete commentary on the Commercial Code, published by Vallardi in the early 1900s, as well as the author of works on promissory notes and bankruptcy (the latter in three volumes).
Bonelli’s entire body of work is now available to researchers on this website.
