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Hamilton, Desirae. « The Captain of the People in Renaissance Florence ». Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804880/.
Texte intégralVirgilio, Carlo. « Florence, Byzantium and the Ottomans (1439-1481) : politics and economics ». Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5738/.
Texte intégralMariani, Irene. « Vespucci family in context : art patrons in late fifteenth-century Florence ». Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15740.
Texte intégralKim, Hae-Jeong. « Liturgy, Music, and Patronage at the Cappella di Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, 1550-1609 ». Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278255/.
Texte intégralGrover, Sean Thomas. « A Tuscan Lawyer, His Farms and His Family : The Ledger of Andrea di Gherardo Casoli, 1387-1412 ». Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11041/.
Texte intégralBailie, Lindsey Leigh. « Staging Privacy : Art and Architecture of the Palazzo Medici ». Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11049.
Texte intégralThe Palazzo Medici was a site of significant social and political representation for the Medici. Access to much of the interior was limited, ostensibly, to the family. In republican Florence, however, visitors were a crucial component in the maintenance of a political faction. Consequently, the "private" spaces of the Palazzo Medici were designed and decorated with guests in mind. Visitor accounts reveal that the path and destination of each visitor differed according to his status and significance to the family. The common citizen waited, sometimes for great lengths, in the courtyard, taking in the anti-tyrannical message of the space. The privileged guest, who had more to provide the Medici, was given access to the more private spaces of the residence. Surrounded by art and architecture that demonstrated the faith, education, and wealth of the Medici, he was assured that his support of the family was beneficial to his own pursuits.
Committee in charge: James Harper, Chairperson; Jim Tice, Member; Jeff Hurwit, Member
Wilson, Helen 1924. « A study of the letters of Alessandra Strozzi : illustrating the significant role which could be played by women in Renaissance Florence ». Master's thesis, Department of History, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7260.
Texte intégralSwanson, Barbara Dianne. « Speaking in Tones : Plainchant, Monody, and the Evocation of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy ». Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1365170679.
Texte intégralLefeuvre, Philippe. « La notabilité rurale dans le contado florentin Valdarno Supérieur et Chianti, aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles ». Thesis, Paris 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA01H015.
Texte intégralThis thesis is an investigation into rural elites. It aims to evidence the process by which rural notables, considered here as a social type, establish their ascendency over a given territory. The Florentine contado is a case in point. Social mobility and the move of the wealthiest inhabitants of the country to the city are shown as primarily responsible for undermining the social cohesion of rural communities, increasingly preyed upon by townsmen. This research is based on three monastic archives, Montescalari, Vallombrosa and Coltibuono, and focuses on the Upper Valdarno valley and the Chianti hills (the archives are held by the Archivio di Stato of Florence, in the Diplomatico). Reconstructing the history and careers of the local notability provides a wider understanding of the way in which social distinction works and evolves over time, transforming rural communities and traditional rural sociability. From the early 12th century up to the first decades of the 13th century, rural communities in the contado were organized on a local and feudal basis, around a significant number of landowning families who exploited the land and the men who worked it, and organized the redistribution of the rent. That pattern changed, not so much because of the rise of city merchants and artisans, but because landlords started to use their lands and feudal power as a means to gain ground in the new urban economy. They neglected older rural solidarities to become providers of credit, which soon worked as an important factor of social differenciation. The social structures (the extended family, fiefdoms, rural towns and the nobility's clientele) which had been the traditional framework for keeping and transmitting capital (both economic and symbolic), were radically transformed in the process
Renard, Thomas. « Architecture et figures identitaires de l’Italie unifiée (1861-1921) ». Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040091.
Texte intégralThis dissertation questions the place and role of architecture in the Italian national building process at the turn of the twentieth century. We chose to isolate several paradigmatic figures of identity (such as Dante or some distinctive features of medieval architecture) and to study them through the prism of a number of commemorations held in Italy in the first decades after unification (1861-1921). The analysis of three commemorations bound together by the activity of the art historian Corrado Ricci constitutes the core of our study.The eighth centenary of the creation of the University of Bologna in 1888 and the architectural activity of Alfonso Rubbiani are studied as one of the first examples of a commemoration not marked by the construction of a new monument but by the reinvention of an old one. The careful consideration of the 1911 celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Italian unification and especially the regional and ethnographic exhibition held in Rome on this occasion allowed us to define a new articulation between national and regional identity, defined as a unity of national artistic genius through a multiplicity of genius loci “rediscovered” in the architecture of late Middle Ages and early Renaissance Commune. The third and main object of our analysis are the commemorations for the 600th anniversary of Dante's death in 1921. For this event many buildings were restored throughout Italy, especially in Florence and Ravenna. In both cities, the impact of commemorations reached an urban scale, leading to the creation of whole areas known as zone dantesche: spatial evidences of the powerful myth that the figure of Dante embodied in this historical conjuncture. Supported by the newly acquired value of heritage in the national building process, this commemoration was a crucial step in the invention of a neomedieval city and its mass diffusion through a set of visual stereotypes
Cilmi, Giancarla. « Les Jacquemart-André collectionneurs d’art italien. Acquisitions et marché de l’art entre la France et l’Italie (fin XIXe-début XXe siècle) ». Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEP053.
Texte intégralEdouard André (1833-1894) and Nélie Jacquemart (1841-1912) are perfectly in line with the practice of late 19th-century art collecting, which was the preserve of the wealthy bourgeoisie of Western society. Their passion for Italian Renaissance art led them to create a unique private museum by collecting works of art (paintings, sculptures, art objects) that recreated the atmosphere of a Florentine palace. For nearly thirty years, they maintained close relations with the best Italian antique dealers and the greatest experts of the time, which enabled them to form a collection that remains exceptional to this day, bequeathed to France in 1912. The analysis of the modus operandi set up by the couple will make it possible to understand the importance of their Italian collection
Merseburger, Maria. « Gemalte Gewandung im Florentiner Quattrocento ». Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18687.
Texte intégralThe thesis presents an art historical methodology that assesses clothing and its pictorial representations in order to interpret how material culture relates to social construction. Using as an example an impressive patronage project of the Tornabuoni family – a newly rich family of merchants in the circle of the Medici – reveals the possibilities as well as the limitations of symbolic communication through dress in early modern Florence. In addition to outward style, these subtle symbols helped to establish and renegotiate their bearer’s position in the shifting hierarchy of an uncertain political climate. By closely examining Tornabuoni commissions, the thesis demonstrates how clothing is a critical means of understanding social motivations and aspirations.
PELLEGRINO, Anna. « La città più artigiana d'Italia : Firenze 1861-1929 ». Doctoral thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5934.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Maurice Aymard (EHESS) - external supervisor ; Prof. Peter Becker (EUI) ; Prof. Gérard Delille (EUI) - supervisor ; Prof. Luigi Tomassini (Università di Bologna)
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Percorsi di vita, fortune imprenditoriali, ristrutturazioni urbanistiche, aggregazioni associative, conflitti politici e sociali, compongono la storia del nuovo artigianato urbano fiorentino: caso singolare di una formazione sociale in parte consistente “inventata” sulla base di dinamiche culturali, ma anche “modello” economico e sociale da confrontare con quelli di altre capitali europee che hanno avuto uno sviluppo analogo.
HOUSSAYE, MICHIENZI Ingrid. « Réseaux et stratégies marchandes : le commerce de la compagnie Datini avec le Maghreb (fin XIVe - début XVe siècles) : réseaux, espaces Méditerranéens et stratégies marchandes ». Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14484.
Texte intégralExamining Board: Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI) – Supervisor; Prof. Antonella Romano (EUI); Prof. David Abulafia (University of Cambridge); Prof. Matthieu Arnoux (Université Paris VII et EHESS, Paris).
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Le rôle d’intermédiaire que jouait le Maghreb dans les relations méditerranéennes, entre l’Orient et l’Europe, et les échanges entre les Maghrébins et les différentes puissances commerciales italiennes et espagnoles, ont ancré de manière importante le Maghreb dans l’histoire méditerranéenne et européenne. En proposant la reconstruction des réseaux et des stratégies marchandes qui permirent à la compagnie Datini, à la fin du XIVe siècle et au début du XVe siècle, de négocier avec le Maghreb, nous tentons d’apporter un nouveau regard sur l’étude des entreprises marchandes médiévales, trop souvent prisonnier d’une lecture classique strictement économique. Nous sommes bien sûr redevables à Armando Sapori, Federigo Melis et aux historiens de cette génération en ce qui concerne l’étude de l’entreprise à cette époque. Nous nous appuyons sur leurs travaux et les citons de nombreuses fois1. Mais l’histoire économique telle que nous pouvons actuellement l’appréhender s’est enrichi considérablement des études sur des sujets de nature plus sociale, anthropologique et intellectuelle des années 1980, permettant une problématisation différente. La recherche présentée s’inscrit dans la continuité des travaux qui la précédèrent mais les directions sont divergentes à la fois sur le sujet d’étude, la méthode de travail, l’espace pris en compte et les sources qui sont utilisées. Quand Federigo Melis traitait de techniques des affaires, il mentionnait les formes de comptabilité, la circulation de l’information, le crédit, l’assurance, les coûts de transports et leur évolution… sans jamais faire référence aux relations, à ces réseaux d’affaires qui permettaient aux compagnies de s’étendre bien au-delà de leur strict champ d’activité. L’application de l’analyse de réseaux aux compagnies marchandes médiévales peut ainsi amplement enrichir celle des sociétés de commerce. Nous entendons réaliser une histoire économique qui ne se coupe pas du social et réintègre pleinement le facteur humain au sein de ses analyses. Nous ne pouvons que constater l’utilité de cet outil permettant de superposer à l’étude des entreprises commerciales celle de l’organisation du monde des affaires sous une forme juridique inexistante, reposant sur des liens informels et sur une confiance réciproque.
SCHELLEKENS, Christophe. « Merchants and their hometown : Florentines in Antwerp and the Duchy of Florence (ca 1500-1585) ». Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/60218.
Texte intégralExamining Board: Professor Luca Molà, University of Warwick & EUI (Supervisor) ; Professor Regina Grafe, EUI (second reader) ; Dr. Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli, University of Florence ; Dr. Maartje van Gelder, University of Amsterdam.
This dissertation investigates the ties between Florentine merchants in Antwerp and their hometown in the sixteenth century. It demonstrates that such ties were of great importance to them and are crucial to understand their actions and strategical decisions. Despite being an outdated institution, the Florentine nation in Antwerp remained an important point of reference for the merchant community, and depending on its concrete strategical value it was treated with either indifference or great attention by its home government in Florence. The members of the nation in Antwerp predominantly had a background in the Florentine Office Holding Class, which indicates that social dynamics in Florence resonated in the composition of the community in Antwerp. Apart from the nation, merchants also were guided by their Florentine background in forming their business ties. In their partnerships, they relied strongly on investments from other Florentines, and in Antwerp they largely selected collaborators with a Florentine background. This also goes up on a long-distance level, where a large number of their international contacts were with Florentines in other centers of commerce in Europe. Their ties with their hometown were stronger than has been assessed thus far. Apart from commercial ties with their hometown, Florentine merchants in Antwerp also sought to develop patronage ties with their home ruler, Duke Cosimo I through the provision of various services. As demonstrated by the case of Gaspare Ducci, also merchants that developed strong ties in the Low Countries and settled there, sought to maintain ties with their region of origin. By pointing to the importance of merchants’ hometown, this thesis contributes to debates about the relation between politics and commerce, the relation between informal networks and formal institutions, as well as the explanatory value of diaspora and cross-cultural trade.
Chapter 1 'The Florentine nation in Antwerp (ca. 1500-1585): the membership and meaning of an institution' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'The Antwerp joyous entry of 1549 : the Florentine-Genoese conflict as a window on the role of a trading nation in political cultural transfers' (2015) in the journal 'Incontri'
DUREL, Aline. « L'imaginaire des épices : Florence-Venise, XIVe-XVIe siècles ». Doctoral thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5782.
Texte intégralDefence date: 15 May 2005
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TADDEI, Ilaria. « Fanciulli e giovani : crescere a Firenze nel Rinascimento ». Doctoral thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5989.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Giovanni Cherubini, Università di Firenze ; Prof. Gérard Delille, Istituto Universitario Europeo ; Prof. Olwen Hufton, Merton College Oxford (supervisor) ; Prof. Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur, Università di Firenze (co-supervisor) ; Prof. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Università di Losanna
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LOMBARDI, Daniela. « Povertà maschile, povertà femminile : l'Ospedale dei mendicanti nella Firenze medicea ». Doctoral thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5884.
Texte intégralARMANI, Barbara. « Il confine invisibile :famiglia, identità e ricchezza di un'élite ebraica nell'Italia dell'emancipazione : gli ebrei di Firenze, 1840-1914 ». Doctoral thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5814.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Michele Luzzati, Università di Pisa ; Prof. Anthony Molho, EUI ; Prof. Francesca Sofia, Università di Bologna ; Prof. Raffaele Romanelli, EUI (supervisore)
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CHABOT, Isabelle. « La dette des familles : Femmes, lignages et patrimoines a Florence aux XIVe et XVe siecles ». Doctoral thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5741.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, E.H.E.S.S., Paris (Directrice de Thèse) ; Prof. Giorgio Chittolini, Università Statale, Milano ; Prof. Gérard Delille, I.U.E. ; Prof. Anthony Molho, Brown University, Providence, R.I. ; Prof. Giuliano Pinto, Università di Firenze
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Carlson, Raymond Edward. « Michelangelo between Florence and Rome : Art and Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy ». Thesis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-mnyb-pv07.
Texte intégralMADIGNIER, Mirabelle. « Sociabilité informelle et pratiques sociales en Italie : les salons romains et florentins au XVIIIème siècle ». Doctoral thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5888.
Texte intégralExamining Board: Jean Boutier, EHESS, Marseille ; John Brewer, University of Chicago ; Laurence Fontaine, Institut Universitaire Européen ; Renato Pasta, Università degli Studi, Florence ; Daniel Roche, Collège de France, Directeur Externe
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GONZALEZ, DE LARA Yadira. « Enforceability and risk-sharing in financial contracts : from the sea loan to the commenda in late medieval Venice ». Doctoral thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4938.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Avner Greif, Stanford University ; Prof. Ramon Marimon, EUI, Supervisor ; Prof. Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid ; Prof. Jaime Reis, EUI
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Greenwood, Ryan. « Law and War in Late Medieval Italy : The Jus Commune on War and Its Application in Florence, c. 1150-1450 ». Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31765.
Texte intégralKHVALKOV, Evgeny. « The colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region : evolution and transformation ». Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/40744.
Texte intégralExamining Board: Professor Luca Molà, EUI/ Supervisor; Professor Jorge Flores, EUI; Doctor Serena Ferente, King's College London; Professor Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge. Description: Thesis in 2 volumes.
The period from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries was a time of significant economic and social progress in the history of Europe. The development of industry and urban growth, the increasing role of trade and the expansion of geographical knowledge led to an époque of colonial expansion for Italy. Its maritime republics, Genoa and Venice, became cradles of commercial development and represent an early modern system of international long-distance trade in the late medieval period. These city-states came to the forefront of world history not only because of their commercial importance and the commercial mechanisms of exchange they introduced and adopted, but also because of their naval importance and the establishment of their overseas settlements.
MATRINGE, Nadia. « L'entreprise florentine et la place de Lyon : l'activité de la banque Salviati au milieu du XVIe siècle ». Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/29619.
Texte intégralExamining Board: Professor Antony Molho, EUI (supervisor); Professor Jacques Bottin, CNRS (external supervisor); Professor Antonella Romano, EHESS; Dr. Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, Università degli Studi di Firenze
This thesis was awarded the European Business History Association (EBHA) Dissertation Prize 2014 in Utrecht in August 2014.
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The commercial archives of the Salviati bank of Lyons record the entire activity of one of the most important companies on the 16thcentury marketplace. They also keep information relative to other businessmen and companies on the European scene at the time. This thesis scrutinises the organisation, methods and main sectors of activity of the Salviati bank (exchange, finances and commodities trade) in the middle of the 16th century, at the height of Lyons’ prosperity. It examines mercantile practices in relation to economic spaces and underlines the reciprocal influence of Florentine mercantile traditions and Lyonese economic structures. More specifically, it shows how the involvement of Italian firms in Lyons shaped their choice of business organisation and trade objects and how the strategies of Italian businessmen impacted in turn on the functioning of the marketplace. While the study of the Lyonese branch of a Florentine firm allows to assess its adaptability to local economic structures, the analysis of the activity of the main actors on the Lyons marketplace sheds light on the economic and social processes essential to the good functioning of that marketplace (forms of collaboration between various economic operators and different levels of market integration). This leads to a questioning of many of the hypotheses formulated in the current historiography (mostly, on the basis of local sources), concerning the Italian dominion over Lyons, and a refutation of the vision of market organisation and changing economic conditions that it puts forward. The section devoted to the exchange business, the main field of specialisation of the Salviati bank at the time, challenges the notion of Lyon’s key function in the European system of exchange. The uncovering of previously unknown financial techniques, and of techniques whose use in the space-time frame of this thesis is traditionally denied, brings an additional contribution to the history of banking.
VLAMI, Despina. « Business, community, and ethnic identity : the Greek merchants of Livorno, 1700-1900 ». Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/6008.
Texte intégralExamining board: Angiolini Franco, University of Pisa (supervisor) ; Delille Gerard, EUI ; Dertilis George University of Athens (co-supervisor) ; Papataxiarhis Efthimios, University of Aegean, Rowland Robert ISCTE Lisbon
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CAGLIOTI, Daniela Luigia. « Il guadagno difficile : commercianti e artigiani napoletani nella seconda meta dell'800 ». Doctoral thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5806.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, IUE ; Prof. Daniel Roche, Paris I (supervisore esterno) ; Prof. Raffaele Romanelli, Università di Pisa ; Prof. Robert Rowland (supervisore) ; Prof. Pasquale Villani, Università di Napoli
First made available online: 16 October 2015
KIRK, Thomas Allison. « Genoa and the sea : ships and power in the early modern Mediterranean (1559-1680) ». Doctoral thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5857.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Franco Angiolini, Università degli Studi di Pisa (co-supervisor) ; Prof. Kirti N. Chaudhuri, European University Institute (supervisor) ; Prof. Laurence Fontaine, European University Institute ; Dr. Richard Mackenney, University of Edinburgh ; Prof. Rodolfo Savelli, Università degli Studi di Genova
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ISENMANN, Moritz. « Legalità e controllo del potere (1200-1600) : uno studio comparativo sul processo di sindacato : Firenze, Castiglia e Valencia ». Doctoral thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/10430.
Texte intégralExamining board: Prof. Anthony Molho (EUI)-supervisor ; Prof. Wolfgang Reinhard (Universität Freiburg i.Br.)-external supervisor ; Prof. Julius Kirshner (University of Chicago) ; Prof. Bartolomé Yun Casalilla (EUI)
PhD thesis printed and available in two language versions: Italian and German. The original version is the Italian.
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Maratsos, Jessica. « The Devotional Imagination of Jacopo Pontormo ». Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8CN722C.
Texte intégralGARCÍA-MONTÓN, Alejandro. « Génova y el Atlántico (c.1650-1680) : emprendedores mediterráneos frente al auge del capitalismo del norte ». Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/32113.
Texte intégralExamining Board: Professor Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, EUI-Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Director) Professor Regina Grafe, EUI Professor Cátia Antunes, Leiden University Professor Maria Fusaro, Exeter University.
While historiography has analyzed the economic rise of northwestern Europe during Seventeenth century, less effort has been devoted to tackle the relative decline of the Mediterranean. Which factors contributed to eclipse the preeminence of south-European merchant-banking networks? How did they react to that shift? This thesis aims at filling that gap by elaborating on the case-study of the Genoese company of Domenico Grillo, offering insight into those questions. The main argument is that the Genoese not only faced increasing competition for the control of exchange circuits but also the reconfiguration of the institutional arrangements that had sustained their previous role as leaders of European financial markets. Challenging the traditional view of decay, this study reveals an astonishing dynamism of Genoese and Italian merchant-bankers in commercial circuits across and within different states and empires, and suggests that these networks adapted rather than collapsed. Furthermore, it shows something perhaps unexpected: the Genoese response went beyond the Mediterranean and encompassed the Atlantic as well. The thesis starts discussing how the Genoese case has been traditionally approached, to then examine the role of those networks in European circuits of exchange. Next, a deep investigation is carried out into the institutional devices supporting Grillo’s business in the Americas, exploring how he collaborated and competed with other actors. The study continues analyzing the trading chains he established across the Mediterranean, Atlantic Europe and the Americas. Finally it focuses on the many times neglected role displayed by the Republic of Genoa in framing the performance of Genoese networks abroad. Using a transnational approach, sources are interrogated in dialogue with the flourishing literature about merchant networks and institutions. Thus, this investigation goes beyond traditional images about the "Genoese capitalism" and revisits one of the axioms underpinning dominant metanarratives about the rise of the so-called "Western civilization".