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At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800

Seventeenth - Century News (Online), 2007, Vol.65 (3/4), p.219 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Seventeenth-Century News Fall 2007 ;ISSN: 0037-3028 ;EISSN: 2332-1369

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  • Title:
    At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and the Venetian Mainland, 1400-1800
  • Author: Litchfield, R. Burr
  • Subjects: Business
  • Is Part Of: Seventeenth - Century News (Online), 2007, Vol.65 (3/4), p.219
  • Description: Capital was provided by noble merchants, raw materials were plentifully available by sea, foreign workers not associated with the guilds were accommodated, and the type of cloth produced adjusted to the market, particularly with lighter Dutch-style fabrics for the Levant trade. [...]the discussion of industry on the mainland, Luca Mocarelli surveys the western zone of Venetian Lombardy with its wool and silk production, paper mills around Salo on Lake Garcia, iron founding at Bergamo and Brescia, and the increasing economic integration of this region. [...]these essays contain much that is new and interesting about the economy of Venice and its mainland territory during the late Renaissance and Early Modern periods.
  • Publisher: College Station: Seventeenth-Century News
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0037-3028
    EISSN: 2332-1369
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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