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“La frugalità e l’economia sono ottime altrove”. Lusso e incentivazione dei consumi nella Livorno del Settecento
No full textLe banquier juif du Roi Soleil. Notes de recherche sur l'anecdote entre le XVIIe et le XVIIIe siècle
No full textL’anecdote est un genre littéraire dans lequel se cristallise le sens commun. Il est alors intéressant d’essayer de comprendre comment la relation entre l’éthique et la pratique des affaires a été représentée dans les anecdotes ayant des marchands pour protagonistes. Cette contribution s’appuie sur la figure de Samuel Bernard, le grand banquier du Roi-Soleil, pour étudier l’évolution des peurs collectives suscitées par la haute finance, un pouvoir anonyme capable d’influences inattendues. A propos de Bernard, un grand nombre d’anecdotes ambiguës et fondées sur des stéréotypes hétérogènes ont circulé au cours du XVIIIe siècle. Parmi les nombreux Bernard ayant été transmis par la tradition, finit par émerger une représentation unique, identifiant le banquier à l’ennemi perfide caché au sein de la communauté
Hanna Dyab, il mercante di storie, recensione al volume: Hanna Dyab, D'Alep à Paris. Les pérégrinations d'un jeune Syrien au temps de Louis XIV, recit traduit de l'arabe (Syrie) et annoté par Paule Fahmé-Thiéry, Bernard Heyberger et Jérôme Lentin, Sindbad, Actes Sud, 2015
No full textLa recensione delle memorie di viaggio di Hanna Dyab, recentemente pubblicate in Francia, si sofferma sul rapporto tra cultura scritta e cultura orale e sulla circolazione di schemi narrativi tra la sponda ottomana del mediterraneo e quella europea
Assicurazioni e gioco d'azzardo tra Bordeaux, Londra e Livorno. Le polizze speculative sul commercio franco-caraibico durante la guerra di successione austriaca
No full textDuring the eighteenth century the deal of marine insurance is characterized by a trend of continuous growth punctuated by soaring peaks during major wars. It is a dynamic that is reflected in all major European markets, and that helps to consolidate the insurance practice among traders, to improve the legal and institutional apparatuses of control and to transform the organization of the insurance business. A key step in the evolution of the market seems to have been the Anglo-French conflict of 1744-48. At the end of the war the total assets of the insurance appeared reshaped for the involvement of three main changes: a closer integration between the different national markets, the birth, a bit 'all over Europe, of the joint stok companies, and the emergence of the London market - where a couple of companies were already operating from the 20s - as the main coordination center, to the detriment of Amsterdam. The speculation of the last years of the war appears to have substantially contributed to determine this remodeling. The change is encouraged by the high insurance rates and by the arrest of the French foreign trade - especially Atlantic -, but made possible by appropriate contractual arrangements that, in a more or less lawful, allowed to release the contract from the need of a underlying insurable interest. The speculative bubble triggered by the deal of «interest or not interest» or «wager» policies, has already been studied from the point of view of legislative initiatives that were launched by the British Parliament to mitigate its potentially destructive effects. In my speech the same topic will be examined from the point of view of the subordinate market of Livorno, in an attempt to shed light on the network of collaborations - or collusions - which transformed the European insurance market in a big gambling house
Filippo Mazzei e Giuseppe Bettoia: una relazione d’affari all’ombra della Rivoluzione Americana (1773-1781)
No full textQuesta non è Sparta! Il nababbo e il negoziante patriota in una commedia di Samuel Foote
No full textSulla commedia di Samuel Foote The nabob (1772) esiste già una ricca letteratura critica. L'opera è stata inquadrata nel suo contesto politico e culturale, mettendo in luce le strategie della satira e le inquietudini sociali che soggiacciono alla scelta del bersaglio polemico. Nel saggio che segue si torna brevemente a considerare la commedia per i differenti modelli di comportamento economico che pone a confronto, prestando particolare attenzione agli elementi che entrano nella costruzione di ciascuno stereotipo.There is already extensive critical literature on the play by Samuel Foote The nabob (1772) The work has been placed in its political and cultural context, highlighting the strategies of satire and social concerns which lie behind the choice of the controversial target. In the following essay we briefly go back to considering the play’s comparison of different models of economic behaviour, paying particular attention to the elements that are part of the construction of each stereotype
recensione del libro: M. Meriggi, Milano Borghese. Circoli ed élites nell’Ottocento, Venezia 1992
No full textlI Casino dei nobili di Pisa e il disciplinamento delle aristocrazie toscane nel XVIII secolo
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