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2018, Humanities
In questo articolo si illustrano alcune dinamiche politiche, socioeco-nomiche e culturali che caratterizzarono la città-porto di Messina tra Cin-quecento e Seicento. In particolare, l'attenzione è centrata sul rapporto che Messina aveva, proprio per la sua spiccata vocazione mercantile, con il suo interland, che spesso andava oltre lo stesso Val Demone. Nel periodo preso in esame, infatti, Messina si configurava tanto come una città emporio per lo smistamento di manufatti e derrate alimentari locali quanto come punto di convergenza e riesportazione di merci provenienti da altri lidi. La siner-gia tra ambiente naturale e attività umane aveva importanti ricadute sociopolitiche, giacché anche la nobiltà cittadina era in affari e sviluppava strategie di interlocuzione con la corte spagnola che miravano ad ampliare i privilegi e l'autonomia della città. Da ultimo, viene preso in esame il porto di Messina come luogo d'ingresso e di circolazione di nuove idee in campo religioso e dunque, specie dopo il 1540, eterodosse e sediziose.
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This essay explores Mediterranean trade as described in eight mercantile manuals composed in Venice and Florence between the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Whereas scholars have read these manuals as historical documents, this essay reflects on their creative dimension. It reads them as projects: proposals on how trade can overcome its imbalances by adopting a logic that defies geographical proximity. In other words, these manuals construct trade as a network. While the word "network" is on everybody's lips these days, it is mostly employed uncritically to signify inter-dependence generally, without realizing that networks instead identify specific behaviors and opportunities for growth. To overcome such a shortcoming this essay retrieves quantitative geographers' analyses of networks in the 1960s and then applies some of their conclusions to interpret early modern mercantile manuals, thus suggesting new paths for art historical research and interpretation. (The text printed by Brill contains a few typos and errors that have been corrected in the present version.)
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