Zorli was then lecturer in public finance at the University of Bologna, and there had the idea to start up the Padua journal once again. According to his plans, "while remaining faithful to the principles of the Padua journal, this Bologna journal would particularly aim to settle controversies among economists, and to become a real gym for all opinions but subversive opinions." The new journal would soon receive support by many of the leading Italian economists. The frequency went from bi-monthly to monthly and a few years later the management of the journal moved to Rome, even though printing continued to rely on the Fava & Garagnani typography in Bologna. The aim of the new series was increasingly to promote a comparison between protectionists and free traders. Next to protectionists Eugenio Forti and Fedele Lampertico, the Giornale degli economisti added new signatures of the Società Adam Smith founder Tullio Martello and the brilliant young liberal Maffeo Pantaleoni. Pantaleoni worked on the journal's financial review page as well. The conciliatory formula for "gym of ideas" proved successful and after a few years the Giornale degli economisti ceased to be unprofitable. But soon the journal's editorial line changed. In 1890 Zorli was joined in management by Maffeo Pantaleoni, Antonio De Viti De Marco and Ugo Mazzola, the three of them also acquiring 3/4 of the journal's property. The three had long entertained the idea of creating a new journal close to the Marginalist economic school of which the three of them were members. They decided, however, to give up the idea, focusing instead upon the Zorli journal. The difference in orientation between the directors was evident and soon Zorli would end up being more and more marginalized. In short, the first director realized that he was "a fish out of water," the newspaper got out of his hand and the proximity to Marginalism became more marked each year. The political orientation of the Giornale degli economisti changed as well. It became liberal, anti-protectionist and anti-socialist. The journal supported the positions of the Associazione economica liberale italiana whose president was Pantaleoni. Editors of the Giornale degli economisti opposed the customs tariff and the traditional historical left's trade wars with France. They sympathized with Napoleone Colajanni and the extreme political left in contrast with Francesco Crispi. They fought strenuously against Crispi during the Banca Romana scandal. There was a new purpose in style as