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Niccol Di Lorenzo Della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, Ca. 1470Ð1493
A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy. Lorenz Bninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccol di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, Niccol established his business there and published a number of influential books. Among these were Marsilio FicinoÕs De christiana religione, Leon Battista AlbertiÕs De re aedificatoria, Cristoforo LandinoÕs commentaries on DanteÕs Commedia, and Francesco BerlinghieriÕs Septe giornate della geographia. Many of these books were printed in vernacular...
Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century)
This volume offers a cross-period (14th-19th century) European comparison of different property regimes brought into conversation with inheritance patterns and resulting gender-specific negotiations and conflicts.
Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean
How did free trade emerge in early-modern times? How did the Mediterranean as a specific region – with its own historical characteristics – produce a culture in which the free port appeared? What was the relation between the type of free trade created in early-modern Italy and the development of global trade and commercial competition between states for hegemony in the eighteenth century? And how did the position of the free port, originally a Mediterranean ‘invention’, develop over the course of time? The contributions to this volume address these questions and explain the institutional genealogy of the free port. Free Trade and Free Ports in the Mediterranean analyses the atypical ...
A Companion to Medieval Pisa
This volume comprises a multidisciplinary study of Pisa’s socio-economic, cultural, and political history, art history, and archaeology at the time of the city’s greatest fame and prosperity during the transformative period of the Middle Ages.
The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence
The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of rigattieri in fifteenth-century Florence. It offers invaluable information on issues such as the relationship between socio-political affiliations and economic interest as well as the structures of consumption and the spending power of different social groups. Furthermore, through the lens of the Arte dei Rigattieri, this work examines the connection between the development of the political bureaucracy, the establishment of Medicean power, and contemporaneous processes of identity construction and social mobility.
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
I tribunali mercantili nei comuni italiani
Fra XII e XIII secolo nelle città dell’Italia centro-settentrionale (e non solo) iniziarono a sorgere universitates mercantili dalla natura sfuggente. Assunsero la forma del tribunale, della corporazione, dell’ufficio comunale; ed ebbero in molti casi un ruolo cruciale nelle vicende politiche urbane ed extraurbane. Attraverso un prolifico ricorso alla comparazione, questo saggio ne rintraccia le tipologie, le modalità di azione, il ruolo politico, diplomatico, giudiziario e amministrativo; e restituisce un’immagine estremamente complessa delle dinamiche di potere, in corrispondenza sia dell’emergere del comune podestarile e popolare che dei domini personali. Il risultato va al cuore pulsante stesso della vita associata tardomedievale, nutrito dal dialogo continuo fra le ragioni della giustizia, della politica e dell’economia.
La teinture et les matières tinctoriales à la fin du Moyen Âge
La cuve d’un teinturier florentin de la fin du Moyen Âge pouvait absorber quotidiennement du kermès d’Espagne et de Corinthe, de l’alun de Phocée ou des mines de Kütahya, de la garance de Flandre, du brésil dont Marco Polo nous a appris qu’il était importé en Europe depuis Sumatra ou encore de l’orseille récoltée sur les falaises côtières de Majorque ou des Canaries, etc. et constituer ainsi, d’une certaine manière, le point de convergence du plus vaste réseau marchand formé avant l’ère des grandes découvertes. Traitant de la teinture du point de vue technique et productif, des teinturiers du point de vue du travail et de leur place dans la société, de la production des colorants et des mordants de teinture, ainsi que du commerce des matières tinctoriales, ce livre jette un regard neuf et en grande partie inédit sur un thème, souvent sous-estimé, mais pourtant essentiel pour comprendre les grandes orientations de l’histoire économique des époques préindustrielles.
GUIDA STORICO-CRONOLOGICA DEL COMUNE DI GREVE IN CHIANTI NEL MEDIOEVO. PARTE I: Dalla nascita del mercatale a Greve alla caduta di Siena (1555). Luoghi, fatti, vicende - Famiglie e personaggi
L'autore, dopo una ricerca durata un decennio e ancora continuata, presenta i primi tre (Parte I) di otto volumi sulla storia del comune di Greve in Chianti nel Medioevo, dalle prime notizie risalenti al VIII secolo sino al 1555 quando si concluse la guerra tra Firenze e Siena. Nei primi due volumi si parla delle "terre murate", ossia dei castelli, dei borghi, e delle persone che li abitavano: dal contadino vessato dal padrone, al boscaiolo-carbonaio pagato sempre meno del promesso, dal servo alla balia, dal poveraccio al miserabile, dall'artigiano al piccolo proprietario terriero, dal parroco al soldato. Sentiamo anche le vicende delle famiglie più in vista di quei tempi: dei Gherardini, d...
