Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century

In: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

In: Springer eBook Collection

Abstract

1. Italian victualling systems in the early modern age: an overview and a critical assessment; Luca Clerici -- 2. Complexity and efficiency: Milan in the 17th and 18th centuries; Luciano Maffi and Luca Mocarelli -- 3. One city, two economic areas: wheat and olive oil trade in Bergamo between Venice and Milan; Fabrizio Costantini -- 4. Provisioning a medium-sized town in a polycentric state: Vicenza and Venice, 1516‒1629; Luca Clerici -- 5. Managing abundance: victualling offices and cereals merchants in 18th century Ferrara; Giulio Ongaro -- 6. The wealth of periphery? Food provisioning, merchants, and cereals in the Papal States: the case of the March of Ancona; Luca Andreoni and Marco Moroni -- 7. The Roman Annona and its market in the 18th century; Donatella Strangio -- 8. A two-sided kingdom: a Sicily of export and urban wheat supply; Ida Fazio.