In the park of Ca’ Diedo a bronze Luzzatti stands on a tall stone pier: the economist of the popular banks, deputy for Oderzo from 1871, Minister of the Treasury many times and Prime Minister in 1910–1911.
At a glance
The monument to Luigi Luzzatti stands in the Parco Ca’ Diedo, the public garden of Oderzo. Luzzatti (Venice, 11 March 1841 – Rome, 29 March 1927) was elected deputy in 1871 and represented the constituency of Oderzo for decades, until he became a senator in 1921. He was the founder of the first Italian popular bank, the Banca Popolare di Lodi, in 1864, the theorist of cooperative credit, Minister of the Treasury in seven governments between 1869 and 1920, the author of the conversion of the public debt of 1906, and President of the Council from 31 March 1910 to March 1911. The town that elected him put up this monument: a standing bronze figure with a book under his arm, on a cylindrical stone base in front of a tall pier, with his name cut on the base.
Key facts
- Honours: Luigi Luzzatti (1841–1927), deputy for Oderzo from 1871, senator from 1921
- Offices: Minister of the Treasury 1869, 1871–73, 1896–98, 1903–05, 1906, 1909–10, 1920; Prime Minister 31 March 1910 – March 1911
- Work: founder of the Banca Popolare di Lodi (1864), the first Italian popular bank; the debt conversion of 1906
- Monument: bronze standing figure on a stone base and pier, in the Parco Ca’ Diedo
- Note: the contributor reports the sculptor Luciano Mercante and the inauguration on 24 January 1937; we have not yet found a published source for either and give them as his report
- GPS: 45.78140, 12.49268 · Open in Google Maps
History
Luzzatti belongs to the generation of Venetian liberals who built the institutions of the new kingdom: his popular banks and rural credit societies, modelled on the German cooperatives, spread through the Veneto countryside that elected him. He was the first Jewish Prime Minister of Italy, and his government of 1910–1911 prepared the electoral reform that his successor Giolitti carried through.
The monument in the park is the town’s memorial to its deputy. The park itself, Ca’ Diedo, takes its name from the villa of the Diedo family whose grounds it occupies.
What you see
A bronze figure of a bearded man in a frock coat, standing with a book under his left arm, on a round stone base inscribed LUIGI LUZZATTI, backed by a tall rectangular pier of pale stone and set on two circular steps; around it the gravel and the trees of the park. The photograph was taken in autumn, with the leaves beginning to turn.
Nearby
- Palazzo Foscolo — the civic museum, in the centre
Sources
- Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani — Luzzatti, Luigi: birth and death, the election of 1871, the Senate in 1921, the ministries of the Treasury, the presidency of the Council of 1910–1911, the Banca Popolare di Lodi of 1864, the conversion of 1906
- Marcadoc — Oderzo: the monument to Luigi Luzzatti, deputy of the constituency of Oderzo and Prime Minister 1910–1911, inside the Parco Ca’ Diedo
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