11 Facts About Luigi Luzzatti

Luigi Luzzatti served as the 20th prime minister of Italy between 1910 and 1911.

Luigi Luzzatti is remembered being the founder of the Italian credit union movement and for his book Dio nella liberta, in which he advocates religious tolerance.

Luigi Luzzatti was born to Jewish parents in Venice on 11 March 1841.

Luigi Luzzatti was again minister of the treasury from November 1903 to March 1905 in Giolitti's second administration, and for the third time from February to May 1906, under Sonnino's premiership.

Luigi Luzzatti was minister of agriculture in the second Sonnino Cabinet, and on the resignation of the latter was called upon to form a cabinet himself.

Luigi Luzzatti became treasury minister in the second incarnation of the Nitti cabinet, but did not resume office in the third.

Luigi Luzzatti died in Rome on March 29,1927, at the age of 86.

Luigi Luzzatti pioneered social legislation in Italy and initiated important social reforms, such as compulsory accident insurance.

Luigi Luzzatti promoted workers' cooperatives, credit unions and voluntary insurance schemes that allowed people to take charge of their future.

Luigi Luzzatti, nevertheless, remained a typical liberal of his time: he believed that government action to help the poor should be carefully restricted, and that the government should only intervene when private initiative proved inadequate; welfare schemes should not exonerate workers from investing effort in their own moral and economic regeneration.

Luigi Luzzatti supported the Zionist movement, specifically agricultural settlements in Palestine.