Papers by Ricardo Galliano Court
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004
... Sixteenth-century Genoese merchants did not punish sloth and malfeasance by a public airing, ... more ... Sixteenth-century Genoese merchants did not punish sloth and malfeasance by a public airing, so perhaps Quaratesi would have been willing and able to replace what he had lost.17 He had lost much more than small commissions on Brignole shipments. ...
RiMe. Rivista dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea (ISSN 2035-794X), Dec 31, 2008
Ucla Historical Journal, 2004
Renaissance Quarterly, 2008
Books by Ricardo Galliano Court
A view into the social, professional, and legal world of sixteenth-century Mediterranean trade is... more A view into the social, professional, and legal world of sixteenth-century Mediterranean trade is revealed in the letters of Gio Francesco di Negro, by his successes, his failures, and the language he used. A ‘language of trust’ acted simultaneously as the linguistic fabric of his economic agreements, and the social thread that tied his network together. His claims of trustworthiness could be effectively and efficiently gauged, fostering a robust, low-cost regime of informal contract enforcement. In Gio Francesco’s world, there was much to lose by cheating and much to gain by being honest. Relationships were valuable. Revealing his world provides context for the noted shift in praxis in the seventeenth century, when Spanish banking failure and resulting bankruptcies caused the value of these commercial relationships to collapse in the 1620s. Genoese merchants became willing for the first time to invest in costlier institutional arrangements, including Venetian style state-run commercial fleet and insurance.
Drafts by Ricardo Galliano Court
The birth of the Renaissance as a distinct historical period is inexorably bound with the unifica... more The birth of the Renaissance as a distinct historical period is inexorably bound with the unification of Italy and the drive to create an artificial and composite cultural canon. The Florentine Renaissance was used as a stylistic and aesthetic tool that allowed a small but influential bourgeois class to impose itself on the city in dramatically destructive ways, demolishing one of the central locations of the Renaissance to build a series of pseudo-Renaissance structures and spaces. The Arcone in Piazza della Repubblica has loomed over the former Mercato Vecchio with its self-congratulatory inscription for more than a century sweeping away the former inhabitants both from the city center and from the city's history, leaving Abundance torn from her context. Love it or hate it, the Arcone represents the first draft of the Italian Renaissance. Without an understanding of the Arcone and its boosters, the misrepresentations of the Renaissance, which are now the accepted canon, cannot be understood.
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