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Strategie di parte e politica del comune a Genova nei primi anni della signoria di Luigi XII (1499-1507)
No full textThe Maona: A Study on Institutional Migration of Economic Organizational Forms (13th-16th centuries)
Full text linkThis article focuses on the maona, an institution used to set up business transactions, first in Genoa and later in the whole Mediterranean, and on how it changed within the Medieval and early modern age. I use a case study to present a set of question on the more general topic of institutional migration. What happened to some economic institutions over time? What can we say about them when we look at them longitudinally? How can we study institutions in a given moment and follow their migration process over time? I present new findings on the maona, particularly exploring the possibility that an Islamicate institution, similar to the maona, existed in North Africa (Ceuta) and migrated to the northern Mediterranean. I also present a series of findings on some unknown or understudied maone.
Keywords: Maona, Economic Forms, Business Corporation Concepts, Institutional Migration, History of Geno
The Making of the Modern Corporation. The Casa di San Giorgio and its Legacy (1446-1720)
Full text linkThis book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407–1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial, fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolò Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio’s financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law’s Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio
Superba discordia. Guerra, rivolta e pacificazione nella Genova di primo Cinquecento
No full textNell’estate del 1506, durante la dominazione francese, a Genova esplode una rivolta popolare che avanza richieste di riforme politiche radicali e costringe i nobili alla fuga. Nei mesi successivi il potere viene inizialmente gestito da alcuni esponenti del ceto mercantile per poi passare nelle mani degli artigiani, che eleggeranno alla carica di doge un semplice tintore della seta, Paolo da Novi. Nella primavera del 1507, tuttavia, spinto dai nobili in esilio, Luigi XII reprime nel sangue la ribellione e riconquista la città.
Attraverso le vite e gli scritti dei protagonisti, questa ricerca indaga da vicino le dinamiche della rivolta – che, sebbene durata pochi mesi, segnerà nel tempo la storia politica genovese – inquadrandola nella prospettiva più ampia delle guerre d’Italia. Oltre alle cronache locali, vengono analizzati numerosi componimenti letterari e artistici francesi del tempo che celebrarono l’impresa militare del sovrano contro la Superba. Ma la fonte principale resta la ricca documentazione archivistica, che ci tramanda soprattutto la voce degli insorti e i loro tentativi di tenere unito il popolo attraverso dei giuramenti di pace e concordia per resistere ai nobili e all’influenza delle potenti fazioni degli Adorno e dei Fregoso
Libertà e dominio. Il sistema politico genovese: le relazioni esterne e il controllo del territorio
No full textLa paga floreni. Utilisations politiques d’un impôt sur les dividendes à Gênes (fin du xve siècle)
No full textL’une des principales différences entre la dette publique de Gênes et celle d’autres cités-États pendant la Renaissance réside dans l’organisation des créanciers. Même si, ailleurs, les créanciers de l’État devinrent influents, ils ne s’organisèrent pas en associations autonomes. On a émis l’hypothèse qu’à Florence, les grands détenteurs de dette flottante avaient acquis un pouvoir tel qu’ils pouvaient influer sur les politiques. Toutefois ils ne s’organisèrent pas en corporation. À Gênes, en..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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