Curriculum vitae

Luca Gianazza was born on December 24th 1974 and lives in Castellanza (Varese). He is an engineer and works in the mobile telecommunication field for Nokia Siemens Networks.

He is interested in medieval and modern numismatics, expecially concerning the Savoy coinage and the mints in Lombardy and Piedmont from the XVI to the XVIII century. He is a fellow of Società Numismatica Italiana, Accademia Italiana di Studi Numismatici, Société Française de Numismatique, The Royal Numismatic Society and Magazzeno Storico Verbanese. He is an honorary fellow of Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Mantovano.

He organized the congress Le onde della Storia sulla riva del Verbano. Macagno regia, imperiale e moderna dal Medioevo all'età contemporanea (Maccagno, April 12th 2003) and the exibition La "Zecha di Machagno Corte Regale". Storie di zecchieri e falsari nella Maccagno dei Mandelli e dei Borromeo (Maccagno, Civico Museo "Parisi-Valle", April 13th - June 29th 2003).

In 2007 he organized the congress La moneta in Monferrato tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna (Turin, October 26th 2007) and edited the proceedings (Turin 2009).

His book La zecca di Maccagno Inferiore e le sue monete won the "Solone Ambrosoli" award 2004 and the "Fondazione Banca Agricola Mantovana" award 2004.

He is the author of Eligivs, a database used for the advanced management of the private data of the mint workers. The database Eligivs has been introduced to the public during the congress Monete in rete (Bologna, May 22nd 2003) and it now contains 6,568 names, 10,062 relations between workers and mints and 1,403 mint marks (last update: April 17th 2011).

He was awarded the Oscar per la Numismatica 2006 (Italian national award for numismatics) by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Reggiano and the Premio "Albino Bazzi" 2008 for Numismatics by the Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Mantovano.

Since 1994 he is following the wording of a bibliography about the works of numismatics from the Lombard Age till nowadays. At the moment he has computerized and indexed more than 8,000 titles.

At the moment he is following some long term researches about the mints of Casale Monferrato (in the Gonzaga's time) and Masserano.

Collaborations

Collaborator of the Università degli Studi di Milano (chair of Numismatics, prof. L. Travaini) to the research project L'Immaginario e il Potere (coordinated by prof. M. Caltabiano), working out the Imago database, useful for classifying the mediaeval coins and their iconographic lemmas.

Collaborator of the Euromint international research project (www.euromint.net). He followed the wording of the sections about the mints of Maccagno Inferiore and Turin.

Collaborator of the volume Le zecche italiane fino all'Unità edited by L. Travaini (www.luciatravaini.it, section "Research"). He followed the wording of the sections about the mints of Alessandria, Asti, Avigliana, Biella, Briona, Cannero, Carmagnola, Casale Monferrato, Chivasso, Cittiglio, Crema, Crevacuore, Desana, Frinco, Ivrea, Lombardore, Maccagno Inferiore, Masegra (with G. Girola), Masserano, Moncalieri, Moncalvo, Montanaro, Montefiora Conca, Novara, Passerano, Pinerolo, Pontestura, Saluzzo, Santhià, Susa, Tassarolo, Turin (with S. Pennestrì), Vercelli, Vergagni (with B. Prokisch).

Collaborator of the Circolo Culturale "I Marchesi di Monferrato" (www.marchesimonferrato.com). He followed the wording of a web page about the mints of Monferrato.

Congresses

XIV International Numismatic Congress, Glasgow, August 31st - September 3rd 2009. Paper titled The monetary areas in Piedmont during the XIV-XVI centuries: a starting point for new investigations

XIV International Numismatic Congress, Glasgow, August 31st - September 3rd 2009. Poster titled A prosopography of the mint officials. The Eligivs database and its evolution

Congress La moneta in Monferrato tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna, Turin, October 26th 2007. Paper titled Il sistema monetario del Monferrato gonzaghesco: influenze e sviluppi (1536-1590)

Congress Il Monferrato tra Paleologi e Gonzaga, Cuccaro Monferrato (AL), October 28th 2006. Paper titled Le ultime fasi della zecca di Casale Monferrato.

Congress Chivasso capitale dei Paleologi di Monferrato, Chivasso (TO), September 16th 2006. Paper titled La monetazione dei Paleologo in Monferrato: una rilettura dei materiali

Congress Monete in rete, Bologna, May 22nd 2003. Paper titled Un database per il personale di zecca: il progetto Eligivs e la Guida per la storia delle zecche italiane (with L. Travaini)

Congress L'Immaginario e il Potere. Banche dati e metodologia innovativa del Lessico Iconografico Numismatico (LIN), Vicenza, October 12th 2002. Paper titled La gestione informatica del lessico iconografico per le monete medioevali (with A. Bolis)

Congress Fälschungen - Beischläge - Imitationen, Martigny, March 1st-2nd 2002. Paper titled Monetary counterfeits in Northern Italy during the XVII century

Congress III meeting dei numismatici e medaglisti europei, Mantova, September 8th-9th 1994. Paper titled La "coniazione" di medaglie secondo Benvenuto Cellini.

Lectures

La zecca di Maccagno Inferiore e le sue monete. Vicende e protagonisti di una officina monetaria del Seicento, Sonogno (Canton Ticino, Switzerland), May 21st 2011

Le ricerche numismatiche di Giorcelli e Valerani e i cento anni del "Corpus Nummorum Italicorum", Casale Monferrato (AL), June 5th 2010

L'amministrazione della moneta nella Milano spagnola, Milan, October 28th 2008

Una moneta per Arquata. La zecca degli Spinola tra prestigio e profitto, Arquata Scrivia (AL), September 28th 2008

Uomini e monete delle zecche sabaude. L'organizzazione delle officine monetarie dei Savoia dalle origini all'Unità d'Italia, Milan, February 7th 2006

Abusi monetari nel ‘600 verbanese, Porto Valtravaglia (VA), October 9th 2004

Maccagno, le sue industrie, la sua zecca, Luvinate (VA), September 23rd 2004 (with C.A. Pisoni)