PER L'ANALISI DEL CETO COMMERCIALE FIORENTINO NELLA PRIMA METÀ DELL'OTTOCENTO: I SETAIOLI

19th century Tuscany has generally appeared in historical writings as an area of large aristocratic landowners and sharecroppers, an area not much involved in the construction of an industrial and bourgeois society. This article, which focuses on Florence, stresses in contrast that there was a very...

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Published in:Quaderni storici 1989-04, Vol.24 (70 (1)), p.235-268
Main Author: Scardozzi, Mirella
Format: Article
Language:Italian
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RICERCHE
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Summary:19th century Tuscany has generally appeared in historical writings as an area of large aristocratic landowners and sharecroppers, an area not much involved in the construction of an industrial and bourgeois society. This article, which focuses on Florence, stresses in contrast that there was a very numerous stratum engaged in commercial activity. It uses the Tribunal of Commerce «Register of Commercial Companies» to describe about fifty years of the history of the silk industry. It is shown that a change took place in the social composition of silk entrepreneurs from the 1820s on when new members (traders from Livorno, Jews, foreigners) joined local silk merchants; and shown that up until the 1860s Florence maintained an important place as a centre for the production of silk fabrics.
ISSN:0301-6307