Caizzi Collection

Bruno Caizzi was born in Forlì on 8 October 1909. He studied first in Turin and then in Venice, where he graduated in 1932 with a degree in Economics under the supervision of Gino Luzzatto. In 1936, due to his anti-fascist views, he chose to leave Italy and moved to Switzerland, settling in the Canton of Ticino, where he taught economics and history at the Bellinzona School of Commerce. His academic work focused on the Southern Question, the economic history of Lombardy and its ties to that of Ticino. In 1963 he was appointed as a private lecturer in Economic History at the University of Milan, where he held the chair until 1979. He later turned his attention to the economics of transport. He passed away on 12 April 1992 in Breno, a village in Alto Malcantone, Switzerland. 

The archive was originally kept at his home in the Canton of Ticino. In 2004, his family donated the archival and book collections to the Bruno Caizzi Interdepartmental Centre for the History of Switzerland, based at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Milan. Following his death, his widow, Teresa Caizzi Salvadori Del Prato, undertook the task of organising her husband’s papers, particularly the correspondence series.