The Luigi Einaudi Foundation from 1964 to the Present |
In the years that followed, a number of
alternatives were considered regarding the
premises, nature and character of the cultural
institution that was to carry on Einaudi’s work.
The signatories to the deed establishing the Luigi
Einaudi Foundation signed in Turin in 1964 were
the governing bodies of the Province and City of
Turin, the Cassa di Risparmio di Torino and
Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino banks, and
the Fiat Corporation; many of the members of the
Foundation’s first Academic Committee were

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University of Turin faculty members. The Foundation was granted official
recognition by a Presidential Decree signed in 1966. The original
sponsoring bodies were joined by the Bank of Italy, enabling the
Foundation to acquire financial assets, while a law passed in 1970 ensured
government support for ten years starting in 1968, in keeping with the
regulations then in force of ad hoc rules for cultural bodies. When the law
expired in 1977, a group of senators backed a bill presented by Giovanni
Spadolini that allocated annual government funding of 300 million liras to
the Foundation. It was on this occasion that the Foundation launched an
effective press campaign obtaining two results: confirmation that it would
secure public funding, on the one hand, and on the other, as proposed by
the historian Rosario Villari, a member of the Chamber of Deputies’
Education Commission, the introduction of comprehensive legislation
regulating cultural bodies.

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