198 Pages
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Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
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Routledge
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The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician 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 of the highest caliber—at once an original thinker and a remarkable witness to how Europeans even at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth.... Read more
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
Biography
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).
