The history of the Bank of Italy covered in this book refers to a period of increasing fascistization of the State and of its economic and financial tools, during which the Bank with its Governor Vincenzo Azzolini (only in 1944 there will be a short commissarial management) struggles to preserve its own autonomy and independence.
At the same time, the Bank shapes up not only to be a place of operational centralization, but also the central pivot of a qualified core of specialists and a point of reference for the economic, financial and credit culture at international level. Not even the emergencies of war and the partial dismantling of the offices between 1943 and 1945 will prevent the Bank from coming out of the war as a prominent player.
