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Acknowledgements
This book is the result of a research project stretching over the past seven
years, and it benefited from the input and the advice of many colleagues.
The editor and the authors would like to thank all of them: Stefano d’Atri,
Claudio Bargelli, Paolo Calcagno, Fabien Faugeron, Giovanni Fort,
Alberto Guenzi, Luca Lo Basso, Giuseppe Stefano Magni, Ivo Mattozzi,
and Daniel Muñoz Navarro. The late Renzo Paolo Corritore was among
the first promoters of the project. Unfortunately, he left us in 2015. This
book is dedicated to his memory. Renzo, with the vast culture that
characterised him, spent a lifetime of research on deeply investigating all
issues related to victualling systems. His main work on Mantua, La natu-
rale “abbondanza” del Mantovano. Produzione, mercato e consumi granari
a Mantova in età moderna (Pavia 2000), is a cornerstone in this area of
studies.
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Contents
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viii Contents
Index279
Notes on Contributors
ix
x Notes on Contributors
the Republic of Venice. His areas of interest include illicit economies and
cereals, salt, olive oil, and silk smuggling. He is the author of “In tutto
differente dalle altre città”. Mercato e contrabbando dei grani a Bergamo in
età veneta (Bergamo 2016), as well as several articles and essays.
Ida Fazio is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University
of Palermo, where she also teaches Economic and Social History. She
is a founder of the Italian Society of Women Historians, and she is the
Editor-in-Chief of Genesis. Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche.
Her main fields of expertise are the economic and social history of sev-
enteenth- to nineteenth-century Sicily, focusing on provisioning sys-
tems and the wheat trade; women’s and gender history, exploring the
transmission of property and informal trades carried out by women in
early modern and modern Italy and Sicily; and illegal trades in south-
ern Mediterranean during the Napoleonic period (corsairing and
smuggling). She is the author of La politica del grano. Annona e con-
trollo del territorio in Sicilia nel Settecento (Milan 1993) and “Sterilissima
di frumenti”. L’annona della città di Messina in età moderna (secc. XV–
XIX) (Caltanissetta 2005).
Luciano Maffi is a Research Fellow in Economic History at the University
of Genoa and teaches Economic History at the Catholic University of
Milan. He was previously a Research Fellow at the University of Brescia,
and he has collaborated with the Bocconi University of Milan. In
2014–2015 he was a Visiting Researcher at the Blackfriars Hall of the
Oxford University. He is interested in economic and social history, with
particular attention to the primary sector and the food production in the
Early Modern and Modern Age. His studies also involve the history
of tourism, especially in relation to demographic trends and to infra-
structural and economic changes of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Luca Mocarelli is Full Professor of Economic History at the University
of Milan-Bicocca. He is the President of the International Association for
Alpine History, the Vice President of the Italian Association of Urban
History, and a member of the management committee of the Italian
Society of Historical Demography. His researches focus on labour, envi-
ronmental, and markets history. He is the author, together with Giulio
Ongaro, of Work in early modern Italy, 1500–1800 (Cham 2019), and he
Notes on Contributors xi
has edited Quando manca il pane. Origini e cause della scarsità delle risorse
alimentari in età moderna e contemporanea (Bologna 2013).
Marco Moroni has been Associate Professor of Economic History at the
Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona. His publications include the
books L’economia di un grande santuario europeo. La Santa Casa di Loreto
tra basso Medioevo e Novecento (Milan 2000), L’Italia delle colline. Uomini,
terre e paesaggi nell’Italia centrale (secoli XV–XX) (Ancona 2003), Alle
origini dello sviluppo locale. Le radici storiche della terza Italia (Bologna
2008), L’impero di San Biagio. Ragusa e i commerci balcanici dopo la con-
quista turca (1521–1620) (Bologna 2011), Nel Medio Adriatico. Risorse,
traffici, città fra basso Medioevo ed Età moderna (Naples 2012), and
Recanati in età medievale (Fermo 2018).
Giulio Ongaro is a Researcher in Economic History at the University of
Milan-Bicocca. He holds a PhD in Economic History from the University
of Verona, and his thesis was on the construction of the Venetian military
structure in the Mainland dominion and the effects on local public bud-
gets. His current researches focus on the functioning of the cereals market
in eighteenth-century Italy and Europe, especially in terms of market inte-
gration and behaviour of the economic players (merchants, producers, and
public institutions). His interests also involve early modern rural history
and labour history. He is the author, together with Luca Mocarelli, of
Work in early modern Italy, 1500–1800 (Cham 2019).
Donatella Strangio is a PhD and Full Professor of Economic History at
the Sapienza University of Rome, where she is also the Director of the
Master Programme in Business Management. She is the author of numer-
ous books and articles on national and international journals, among
which are Crisi alimentari e politica annonaria a Roma nel Settecento
(Rome 1999) and Italy in a European context: Research in business, eco-
nomics, and the environment, edited together with Giuseppe Sancetta
(Basingstoke/New York 2016). Her more quoted works are on famines in
pre-industrial age, migration, public finance, colonisation and decolonisa-
tion, institutions and long-run economic growth, and the history of tour-
ism. She was a Research Fellow and a Visiting at the London School of
Economics, the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme of Paris, the University
of Adelaide, the University of Buenos Aires, and Columbia University of
New York.
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List of Tables
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List of Maps
Maps are taken from Atlante novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni, e
scoperte fatte dai più celebri e più recenti geografi. Tomo III. 1785. Engravings by
Giuliano Zuliani and Marco Alvise Pitteri. Venezia: Antonio Zatta.
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Map 1.1 Italy (1782)
CHAPTER 1
Luca Clerici
L. Clerici (*)
Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy
e-mail: lclerici@unipd.it
anthropologists shared the belief that the authentic nature of the market
lay in the autonomy of its rules with respect to social ones.
In the last decades, the focus progressively shifted on four lines of anal-
ysis, some synergic and some opposing. The first approach analyses the
market from a neo-institutional perspective, focusing on the role played by
institutions in reducing uncertainty and in consequently lowering transac-
tion costs, favouring contractual exchanges, and fostering economic
growth.6 The second approach, more quantitative in nature, sets aside the
question of trade regulation and concentrates instead on the process of
market integration and economic growth in the long run (where the for-
mer is preferentially inferred from the converging trends of some variables,
chiefly prices).7 The third approach, more historical in nature, analyses the
spread of the market as an allocation system—the commercialisation—in
late medieval and early modern societies, also in connection with changes
occurring in consumption styles and living standards.8 Finally, the fourth
approach tackles the historical question of the market in the context of the
wider design of civil life traced in European societies, starting from the late
medieval urban rebirth.
The change of perspective introduced by the last approach entails a
redefinition of the traditional subject of trade regulation and direct inter-
vention by public authorities into what appears, instead, to be a real pro-
cess of construction of the market as a part of an institutional system
whose setting—notwithstanding the difficulties arising from the slow and
progressive stratification of its component parts over time in an often
empirical way, in response to specific and contingent needs—was coherent
on the whole.9 This general design was reflected, on the urbanistic plane,
in the process of construction of the public space of the forum, i.e. the
complex consisting of the city hall and the main square, which constituted
at once the heart of the city from a political, administrative, judiciary, and
economic point of view. In northern and central Italy, this process was
substantially strengthened in the decades following the Peace of Constance
(1183), with which the Empire recognised to a large extent the autonomy
of communes.10 At the same time, the foundations of the regulation of
victuals circulation and trade were set for the following six centuries.11
In the context of European urban development from the eleventh cen-
tury onwards, northern and central Italy were characterised by several dis-
tinctive features. Firstly, the convergence of civil and ecclesiastical
functions, deriving both from the Roman legacy as municipia and from
the institution of bishoprics. Secondly, the convergence of all social strata
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