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• Autore/i
  Calcagni, M.
• Titolo pubblicazione
  Reinterpreting the Tuscan Economy in the Long Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives for Research from Two Rediscovered Archives
• Titolo del volume in cui è pubblicata
  Paper and the Economy of Knowledge in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Finance, Semiotics, and the Co
• Titolo giornale o rivista in cui è pubblicata
  The Journal of European Economic History
• Numero di serie del libro o giornale
  52 (2)
• Mese
  07
• Da pagina
  77
• A pagina
  94
• Indirizzo web della pubblicazione
  https://www.jeeh.it/public/assets/PDF/2023_2.pdf
• Abstract
  Very little has been written on the Tuscan economy of the seventeenth century, generally dismissed as a period of crisis between the governments of the Grand Dukes Ferdinando II (1621–1670) and Cosimo III (1670–1723). Even less light has been thrown on the financial and commercial operators who traded between Florence and Livorno and then expanded throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. In this article will use previously unpublished Italian and Ottoman economic documentary material scattered in Tuscany to look into the economic activities of some Tuscan businessmen and their companies. They include Ugolino Del Vernaccia (1612–1702), a noble Florentine capitalist who in the 1640s founded an important trading company in Florence with representatives all over Europe, one of the most important of its time, and his nephew Raffaello, who instead preferred to establish his firm in Livorno. The vast quantity and variety of economic documentation kept in the Caccini Del Vernaccia archive will allow for the reconstruction of the business networks of the Del Vernaccia company. Whereas the Del Vernaccias’ interests were primarily in continental Europe and the Western Mediterranean, the second case study revolves around the unknown mercantile activities of Francesco Adami (1654–1702) and his younger brother Domenico (1655–1715) in the Levant. Written in several European languages, in Ottoman Turkish and Arabic these documents kept in the Adami-Lami archive constitute unique cases in the history of early modern Mediterranean trade for so far there was no information on Tuscan merchants in Ottoman Syria at the end of the seventeenth century. These remarkable two collections testify to the transversal contacts that Tuscan economic operators had with the cosmopolitan trade communities in the Mediterranean.