Abstract

A university course of studies was conceived in Brescia by the entrepreneur Milziade Tirandi, in the same years and with an initial investment greater than that which gave life in Milan to the first Italian business university, Bocconi. However, the second city of Lombardy would have to wait until 1982 to see the founding of its university. This paper reconstructs this rocky journey from the aftermath of the First World War and the devaluation of the assets left by Tirandi to the partial completion of the initial economics and business project. It then continues until the second half of the 1900s and the political fight resolutely carried out by the mayor, Bruno Boni, against interests and laws that slowed the creation of new universities in Italy.