Dino Jarach (1915-1996): una vita in due mondi nel carteggio con Benvenuto Griziotti

Abstract. Dino Jarach was a talented student of Benvenuto Griziotti. An orphan of war, in his youth he briefly attended the Pavia School of Public Finance, and collaborated with the Rivista di diritto finanziario e scienza delle finanze (Journal of Financial Law and Public Finance). After the promulgation of Italian Racial Laws (1938), he was forced to expatriate, taking refuge first in Holland and then in Argentina, where he began a new life. The distance however did not break his scientific and emotional relationship with Griziotti and the Pavia School. Jarach was a cultured and cosmopolitan scholar of Financial Law. He taught at the Universities of Córdoba, La Plata and Buenos Aires. In 1947, as a consultant to the Minister of Economy of the Province of Buenos Aires, he was commissioned to draw up the preliminary draft of the Tax Code of the Province, the first of the Argentine Republic. The aim of this article is to reconstruct Jarach’s figure and work through the documents of the Griziotti’s Archive in Pavia.