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In Italy they were called buoni, good for one lira, and represented an ornate classical allegory of the celebration of victory in WWI (image 1).

Luca's broader research interests are focused on financial and monetary history, economic policy and immigration.
He holds a PhD in economic history from the University of Cambridge, and has been a research associate of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, a visiting professor at the Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris and visiting fellow at the University of Princeton.

It was the beginning of the transformation of the nature of the Italian state, despite the fact that the first Mussolini government (1922-24) was still a coalition government in alliance with members of the liberal and catholic parties, without constitutional changes.

The second phase began when the construction of the totalitarian state was advanced in 1926 with the prohibition of all political parties and the cancellation of any opposition space.

Students on PhD programmes in Economics or History and related disciplines are also eligible. He is currently a general director in the Department for economic policy and planning of the Italian Prime Minister's Office.

In 2010, he was on leave from the Italian Prime Minister's Office and visited as a senior research fellow at the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Harvard University and King's College and at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF).

His research in the course of the year was focused on economic and financial crisis and in particular the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and international cooperation in addressing policy and regulatory responses to it in a historical perspective. The re-evaluation sought by the fascist government was not as strong as that pursued by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill in 1924.

Prize Research Grants are conditional on acceptance by and matriculation at the University. For 1 lira and smaller denominations pre-fascist coinage continued to be minted.

In 1936-38 a completely new set of coins was produced, for all values, celebrating the creation of the Empire with the conquest of Ethiopia, despite the sanctions of the League of Nations.

Recognising the impossibility of issuing silver full weight pieces while the value of the currency was so low, the pre-fascist government had started issuing a small denomination parallel coinage in 1922, in nickel instead of silver, outside the rules of the LMU, as the French and the Belgians did as well. He was an economic advisor to Prime Minister Romano Prodi in 1998, a member of the Cabinet of the Minister for the Governmental Programme in 2006-2008 and a senior economist in the Italian G8/G20 office in 2008-2009.

He has published extensively and amongst his publications are Money and Politics: European Monetary Unification and the International Gold Standard (1865-1873) (Oxford, OUP, 2001), Le politiche dell'immigrazione in Italia dall'Unit� ad oggi (Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2007).

The 10 lire showed a two horse chariot, driven by Italy with a conspicuous fascio in her arm, while the five lire exhibited the eagle with a fascio in her claws. It issued in 1923 a 2 lire buono, where the first anniversary of the March on Rome was celebrated by the introduction of the fascist symbol as the central graphical element of the coin (a few 100 and 20 lire gold pieces were also minted, but not for circulation).

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