Papers by Francesco Ammannati
italianoIl contributo presenta in modo sintetico il quadro concettuale all'interno del quale ... more italianoIl contributo presenta in modo sintetico il quadro concettuale all'interno del quale uno studio dei prezzi dei libri nella prima eta moderna dovrebbe muoversi, cosi come i problemi metodologici da affrontare. Nonostante la natura di manufatto semi-industriale ponga il libro a stampa in una classe merceologica del tutto particolare nell'economia pre-industriale, e possibile utilizzare le categorie generali di domanda e offerta per identificare alcuni fattori atti ad impostare specifici percorsi di ricerca basati sull'analisi storico-economica. La storia del libro puo essere quindi messa in relazione con alcuni temi classici della storia economica, allo scopo di inserire il problema del commercio librario e dei prezzi dei libri in un dibattito storiografico piu ampio. Tra le fonti disponibili per lo studio dei prezzi dei libri nella prima eta moderna, l'inventario di bottega di Bernardo Giunti (Department of Special Collections, UCLA, Collection 170/622) e una ...
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The EMoBookTrade project, funded by the European Research Council and directed by Angela Nuovo, h... more The EMoBookTrade project, funded by the European Research Council and directed by Angela Nuovo, has developed a database on book prices (ca. 1530-1630) and book privileges (Venice, 1469 to 1603). This web application shows that digital humanities can play an innovative role in historical research at the same time respecting traditional scientific methods and the needs of ground-breaking inter-disciplinary research. Indeed, the EMoBookTrade DB takes into account both the representation of different kinds of sources and the processing of data deriving from them. Therefore, thanks to a rigorously designed conceptual model, the front end allows for a simple and straightforward source and data representation together with a complex search engine, the results of which can be downloaded in a CSV format suitable for statistical analyses.This article also aims to propose an ontology of price setting and privilege grants, considered as events concerned with the history of the book and the eco...
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... also Messina, Palermo, and Naples, which were replacing the Levant as suppliers of raw silk. ... more ... also Messina, Palermo, and Naples, which were replacing the Levant as suppliers of raw silk. ... of the sixteenth century could lead to misinterpretation of the Florentine woolen industry's crisis. ... Granducato di Toscana sotto il governo della casa Medici (Florence, 1781), 1: 381-83; 2 ...
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Disuguaglianza economica nelle società preindustriali: cause ed effetti / Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effects, 2020
The research aimed at bringing new data to the study of inequality in the distribution of wealth ... more The research aimed at bringing new data to the study of inequality in the distribution of wealth in the long run using the fiscal documentation available to many communities of the Marches region over a period covering the late Middle Ages and the full modern age. The political-administrative history of this territory, progressively incorporated into the Papal State, was reflected in an evolution of the methodologies for assessing wealth for tax purposes. Their characteristics have been carefully taken into account and criticized in order to ensure compatibility in time and space. Land registers, “estimi”, "libre", as well as books of “collette”, will be used to describe the fiscal capacity of taxpayers enrolled in these registers and to estimate the dynamics of economic inequality.
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Storia economica, 2019
Lo studio si propone di indagare il sostanziale cambiamento avvenuto nella gestione del personale... more Lo studio si propone di indagare il sostanziale cambiamento avvenuto nella gestione del personale nei centri lanieri toscani attivi tra XIV e XVI secolo. In particolare, l’enfasi è posta sul ruolo sempre più centrale degli interme- diari che si occupavano della distribuzione del lavoro ai singoli lavoranti, i quali finirono progressivamente per risultare del tutto ignoti ai lanaioli. Que- sto può contribuire a spiegare l’erosione della capacità contrattuale del per- sonale non specializzato, che permetteva ai lanifici di comprimere o ampliare il numero degli occupati a seconda della congiuntura economica.
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Privilegi librari nell'Italia del Rinascimento, a cura di Andrea Ottone e Erika Squassina, 2019
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Selling & Collecting: Printed Book Sale Catalogues and Private Libraries in Early Modern Europe, 2018
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G. Gregorini (Ed.), Le disuguaglianze economiche nella storia, Milano: Vita e Pensiero., 2018
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The difficulties associated with the creation of a large database of book prices include giving e... more The difficulties associated with the creation of a large database of book prices include giving effective answers to questions such as how prices were formed during the various steps of the production process (sedimentation of production costs, costs related to the sale) or what the nature of the assigned value is (estimated in the case of used books, or of stock inventories, or the result of special conditions offered to specific customers, etc.). But first it is necessary to reflect on the interpretation given to the figures provided by the heterogeneous documentation which supports the creation of such a database. The many reference currencies in which these prices are expressed, depending on the monetary area of action of the economic operators (printers, booksellers, customers) are likely to confuse and mislead if their exact meaning is not clearly understood. This problem becomes even more urgent when, for example, the primary sources are the private notes of a collector who recorded how much he had paid for a book, or when two different currencies in place or in time have the same name. This aspect is also crucial in comparing different places and markets. Was the price expressed in money of account or in coined money? In domestic or foreign currency? Is it possible to relate two prices expressed in different currencies? The purpose of this paper is therefore to explore in greater depth some of the economic-monetary aspects of Renaissance Europe in order to help clarify any doubts or misreadings by building a reliable picture of the various types of currency used in Europe between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is an essential step to subsequently address the possibility of comparing prices expressed in different currencies as they emerged on different markets.
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This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices sho... more This paper presents a summary of the conceptual framework within which a study of book prices should take place and the research issues, as well as the methodological problems, which need to be addressed. Although the nature of books as semi-industrial goods puts them in a different class of product as seen from the point of view of a pre-industrial economy, the broad categories of supply and demand have been used to identify a series of factors giving rise to specific research questions which need input from various aspects of economic historical analysis. The history of the book is placed in relation to some classic topics of economic history, in an attempt to put the book trade and the prices of books in the context of a broader historiographical debate. Among available sources for early modern book prices, the inventory of the book shop of Bernardo Giunti (Department of Special Collections, UCLA, Collection 170/622) is evidence of the thriving book market in Venice of the period. The almost 12,000 entries included in the list of books for sale reflect the purposes and aims of the firm. The structure of this document is somewhat complex as it was in continual use for more than twenty years. Over this period of time, it appears to have become not merely a catalogue or finding-list of books for the use of the firm's clerks, but also an important tool for the management of the shop and its stock. Almost every title is priced, making this inventory one of the most extensive and significant sources for the study of book prices in early modern Europe. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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La manifattura della lana, insieme al grande commercio e alla finanza internazionale, fu uno dei settori trainanti della Firenze bassomedievale. Il Cinquecento è stato solo sfiorato dagli studi storico-economici, specialmente riguardo l’organizzazione della produzione o del lavoro, forse perché considerato tradizio-nalmente il secolo della decadenza. Ricerche più recenti hanno invece evidenziato la necessità di ripensare queste conclusioni, dimostrando come il comparto tessile rappresenti un buon punto di osservazione per approfondire le criticità e valutare le prospettive dell’economia della città del Giglio nel Sedicesimo seco-lo. Affiancando all’analisi di un case study le rielaborazioni critiche di quanto la letteratura offre sui temi di ordine più generale, il libro presenta una visione di lungo periodo del processo di ascesa e declino dell’Arte della Lana di Firenze, reinterpretandola alla luce di nuovi scavi archivistici
Giovanna Granata and Angela Nuovo, Introduction. The development of the book market and book collecting in the sixteenth century
Giovanna Granata, The collection of Monserrat Rosselló in the University Library of Cagliari
Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, Building an up-to-date library. Prospero Podiani’s use of booksellers’ catalogues, with special reference to law books
Graziano Ruffini, Une vente de livres à Gênes en 1583
Christian Coppens and Angela Nuovo, Printed catalogues of booksellers as a source for the history of the book trade
Francesco Ammannati, Book prices and monetary issues in Renaissance Europe
Goran Proot, Prices in Robert Estienne’s booksellers’ catalogues (Paris 1541-1552): a statistical analysis
Giliola Barbero, Ordinary and extraordinary prices in the Giolito Libri spirituali sales list
Flavia Bruni, Peace at the Lily. The De Franceschi section in the stockbook of Bernardino Giunti
Pedro Rueda Ramírez, La venta de libros italianos en Madrid en tiempos de Felipe II: el catálogo
de Simone Vassalini (1597)