Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions and Empire

Auteur

Corey Tazzara is Associate Professor of History at Scripps College. He is the author of The Free Port of Livorno (Oxford, 2017) as well as the editor (along with Paula Findlen and Jacob Soll) of Florence after the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790 (Routledge, 2019).

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The Florentine traveller, merchant, and academic Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations, Sassetti was also a commercial writer, original thinker and witness to how Europeans at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.

Contenu

Table of Contents, Acknowledgements, Texts and Translations, Abbreviations, Monetary Units, Maps, Preface: Filippo Sassetti and Portuguese India (Sanjay Subrahmanyam), Chapter 1. The World is a Village? Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Empire, and Institutions in the Renaissance, Chapter 2. Discourse on Mediterranean Trade, Chapter 3. Indian Letters, Index