The Economics Collection

Confederazione generale fascista dell'industria italiana, Lo sviluppo dell'industria italiana nel I° decennio dell'era fascista, [Italia, s.n.], 1932 (Milano, Officine G. Ricordi).

The collection, marked as RARI, is made up of more than 300 books published from the early 19^th century to the Thirties of the 20^th century and mostly carrying the bookplate of Pietro Sitta (1866-1947), who was Rector of the University of Ferrara from 1909 to 1938. He was also Senator of the Italian Kingdom and professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Law, where he set up the Cabinet of Statistics that was the core of the future Faculty of Economics. After his death, as he had wished many of his books were endowed to the Library in 1949: among them, the interesting Biblioteca dell'Economista (serie I-V) published in Turin by Pomba, then UTET, since 1850 and the Scrittori classici italiani di economia politica (Milan, Destefanis, 1803-1816), some 19^th century works about political economy and classics of economic studies, like the Adam Smith's Richesse des nations (Paris, Guillaumin, 1859).

The Library holds many publications of the Fascist period as well, probably belonging to the Cabinet of Statistics' book collection: in fact the majority of them are related to demographic and economic statistics, including several Italian Government's official reports and some local periodicals like the Bollettino statistico of Ferrara, which at that time was a very important political centre.

The collection is available at: Economics library