This work aims at filling some historiographical gaps concerning the economy and the commercial activities of Naples and its satellite ports in the decades around the turn of the fifteenth century using unusual and complicated sources such as Tuscan trading practices and Venetian tariffs. To the analysis of these materials the study of commercial letters sent to the Merchant of Prato by operators present in those areas was added. This addition offers two levels of interpretation, the first of which concerns the methodological aspects of the research. From the second, the one of results, a particularly articulated picture emerges in which the Neapolitan region appears as an attractive outlet market for woollen cloths and silk drapes manufactured in the cities of central-northern Italy and, at the same time, as an important supply market of some raw materials and many foodstuffs.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6593-8954
Book Title
«Ora diremo di Napoli». I traffici dell'area campana nei manuali di commercio
Authors
Angela Orlandi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
122
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-309-0
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-308-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-309-0
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-310-6
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-929-3
Series Title
Biblioteca di storia
Series ISSN
2464-9007
Series E-ISSN
2704-5986