Giacomo Alatri (1833 in

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– 9 March 1889 in Rome) was an Italian banker and philanthropist, the son of

Samuel Alatri Samuel Alatri (1805 in Rome – May 20, 1889 in Rome) was an Italian politician, communal worker, and orator. For more than sixty years he led the Jewish community of his native city, and bore the brunt of its contests for religious and polit ...

. He was for several years president of the Banca Romana, which position he resigned when, in 1881, his propositions for the reorganization of the bank were rejected. The subsequent history of that institution, its ultimate

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in 1893, and the grave political disturbances occasioned by it throughout Italy known as the

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, fully justified the courageous stand taken by Alatri. His chief philanthropic efforts were directed toward organizing

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s for the

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poor, to the success of which he devoted all his energies. Alatri died at the age of fifty-six, two months before his father. His work on bank reform, entitled ''Sul Riordinamento delle Banche d'Emissione in Italia'', was published in Rome in 1888.

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1833 births 1889 deaths Italian bankers 19th-century Italian Jews 19th-century Italian businesspeople {{Italy-business-bio-stub