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The St. Francis Mounts of Piety was created through the very zealous and incisive apostolate of the Conventual Franciscan Friars in Lucera, Italy. This financial institution was successful in realizing the political and economic emancipation of the poorest masses. All this was made possible through the ever vigilant and meticulous management of the friars. The guarantee clause (pledge or mortgage) on the loans and the interest rate (below the legal rate) to cover administrative expenses helped the friars create a style of management that was beyond reproach. Prominent among the friars involved was St. Francis Anthony Fasani of Lucera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research comes from the deepest reasons of the crisis, in order to recognize in such reasons themselves the direction to come out, the new needs and the new challenges. The local resources (material and immaterial) were reconsidered as patrimony, precious but limited, of each specific area to trace out a path of supportability able to rebuild new relations between project/production and environmental culture. The industrial production becomes a driving force for the economic renewal through an iterative cycle between research/science and economics aiming to smart building, meant as practice in evolution. This practise is careful to the local, environmental, cultural and economic situation, whose parameters are identity, energy, environment, mobility and economics that give back different scale answers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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