Events by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
From the early years of the 16th century, Nuremberg saw a significant influx of Italians. This bu... more From the early years of the 16th century, Nuremberg saw a significant influx of Italians. This burgeoning Italian community consisted primarily of merchants and bankers. However, it also included humanists and Protestant refugees. Many were drawn to Nuremberg for various durations, ranging from brief stays to many years, in pursuit of happiness, profit, and security.
Italian settlers played a crucial role in shaping Nuremberg's commercial and cultural aspects in the early modern period. Despite recognition from historians, there's a notable gap in research about their experiences and stories in Nuremberg. This
highlights the need for comprehensive research to explore the multifaceted journey of these immigrants. Such a study will reveal their personal stories, challenges, and impact on the socio-economic changes of the time. It will also offer insights into
socio-cultural assimilation, intercultural interactions, and the creation of transnational networks, shedding light on the complexities of Nuremberg's development in this period. The conference should have an interdisciplinary approach, integrating historical analysis, economic theory, and sociocultural perspectives, in order to capture the lived experiences, aspirations, and challenges faced by the Italian settlers, as well as
their contributions to the economic, social, and cultural fabric of Nuremberg during this transformative period.
When: Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (BST)
Where: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Gradua... more When: Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (BST)
Where: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, 335 Mile End Road, London E1 4FQ (and online)
We are delighted to invite you the launch of the QM History website of the Borromei Bank Research Project, a landmark event in the study of medieval banking and of European monetary history. It is the culmination of two decades of ESRC-funded collaboration between our own Professor Jim Bolton and Professor Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli of the University of Florence & Visiting Reader at QMUL, and will be a major resource for economic and social historians of late medieval Europe. The website provides access to two fifteenth-century ledgers of the Bruges bank and London branch of the Borromei banking family, found in the family private archive of within their palazzo on Isola Bella near Milan. These ledgers contain detailed evidence for fully developed double-entry bookkeeping, with records for seven hundred accountholders, great and small, Italian, Iberian, Flemish, Dutch and English, and further hundreds of customers who took part in transactions with the banks. The database consists of over 23,000 entries translated from the original Italian and then converted to electronic database versions. The database can be searched by accountholders or by free text and gives us unprecedented view of the transformative power of the credit revolution in England and northern Europe, as well as intimate snippets of everyday life, from barber receipts to prices of soap. The website is already up and running and can be accessed here (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/borromei-bank-research/). The launch will celebrate this freely accessible database, which represents a key moment for Digital Humanities in the School, and a template for future projects. It also will celebrate the achievement of Francesco and Jim, leading authorities on money in medieval Europe.
Book now:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borromei-bank-research-website-launch-tickets-687155178637?aff=erelpanelorg
Books by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023
This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centurie... more This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century
Biblioteca di storia
This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centurie... more This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century.
""Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteent... more ""Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family patrimony, he rose to prominence during the pontificate of Pope Paul III, becoming involved with a variety of papal enterprises which allowed him to get to the heart of the mechanisms governing the papal finances. Amassing a considerable fortune along the way, Olivieri soon built himself a role as co-ordinator of the appalti (revenue farms) and became one of the most powerful players in the complex network that connected bankers and the papal revenue. This book explores the indissoluble link that had developed between the papacy and bankers, illuminating how the Apostolic Chamber, increasingly in need of money, could not meet its debts, without farming out the rights to future income.
Utilising documents from a rich corpus of unpublished sources in Florence and Rome, Guidi Bruscoli unravels the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy, and looks at how money was raised and the appalti managed.
Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part 1 Rome, Florence and the Olivieri: Florentines in Rome; The ascent of the Olivieri family. Part 2 Benvenuto Olivieri and the Apostolic Chamber: The depositary and loans to the pontiff; The papal public debt: venal offices and Monti; The customs of Rome; The provincial treasuries; Indirect and direct taxes; Other activities; The business turnover. Conclusion; Appendix; Manuscript sources; List of cited references; Index
Reviews: ‘This study by Guidi Bruscoli is very important for both economic history and church history’ (Renaissance Quarterly)""
eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, 2018
Monographic issue in eHumanista (38, 2018): Sisters. Relations between the Iberian and the Italia... more Monographic issue in eHumanista (38, 2018): Sisters. Relations between the Iberian and the Italian Peninsulae, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times.
Los contactos entre la península ibérica y la península italiana en época medieval y moderna se h... more Los contactos entre la península ibérica y la península italiana en época medieval y moderna se han erigido en un eje clásico desde el desarrollo de la Historia como disciplina científica. La cercanía de ambas, enmarcando el Mediterráneo occidental, había propiciado los intercambios económicos, políticos, sociales y culturales desde la Antigüedad. La expansión islámica y la conquista del reino visigodo de Toledo cambió las características y la naturaleza de dicho marco con la instauración de al-Andalus. Y es precisamente al-Andalus el punto de partida de este monográfico, que nació con una firme voluntad integradora. Efectivamente, desde un principio se planteó la necesidad de integrar en este retrato integral y continuo en el tiempo durante seis siglos todos los territorios que componían ambas penínsulas en la medida de lo posible, desde un punto de vista global y sin exclusiones. En consecuencia, en lo que respecta a la península ibérica, se quiso incluir el territorio islámico. Pero también Portugal, en algunas ocasiones excluido en visiones españolistas de la realidad ibérica, centradas en las coronas de Castilla y Aragón. En sentido paralelo, para la península itálica se quiso ir más allá de la omnipresencia de las repúblicas mercantiles-Génova, Venecia, Pisa, Florencia-y se buscó dar visibilidad también a otros territorios que desempeñaron asimismo un papel importante en las relaciones entre ambas: están representados con Milán, Nápoles, Ferrara y Mantua. La producción historiográfica a que ha dado lugar este fecundo campo de la investigación histórica desborda por completo el objetivo de esta breve introducción. Baste decir que dan buena cuenta de ella las citas de todos los trabajos presentados. Pero sí cabe señalar que otro punto de partida fue contar con algunos de los autores que con mayor dedicación están desarrollando líneas de investigación importantísimas para el desarrollo y el mejor conocimiento del marco general que las acoge. Las cargas de la vida académica actual han impedido que finalmente se pudiera contar con algunos más, en principio deseosos de aceptar. Los autores han sido libres de proponer y enfocar sus trabajos como han estimado más oportuno. El lector especializado observará que, en su mayoría, han adscrito sus investigaciones a lo que ha dado en llamarse historia social de la economía; pero también destacan otros nombres clave para la historia de la diplomacia y las relaciones del poder (Lazzarini, Scarton, Villarroel). Con todo, las dos primeras contribuciones (Azuar, García Porras) tenían un punto de partida diferente, la Arqueología, indispensable en el desarrollo del conocimiento histórico. Por otra parte, precisamente la libertad de planteamiento ha propiciado que los textos agrupados sean de naturaleza variada. Así, el lector va a encontrar tanto recorridos historiográficos (Azuar, García Porras, Guidi Bruscoli, Tognetti) como estudios específicos, bien por el recurso a una fuente documental privilegiada (Orlandi, Fábregas, Sequeira), bien por centrarse en un territorio específico, desde la Corona de Castilla (Villarroel González) y el Reino de Granada (González Arévalo) al Ducado de Milán (Villanueva Morte), el Reino de Nápoles (Scarton) y los principados de Mantua y Ferrara (Lazzarini) para cerrar, ya en época moderna, con la Monarquía Hispánica (Girón Pascual, Lobato Franco). La disparidad de los territorios en contacto analizados impedía agruparlos por bloques formales y homogéneos, más allá del confesional, de modo que finalmente se optó por presentarlos siguiendo un criterio estrictamente cronológico, recurso que al final ha contribuido a ofrecer una imagen global bastante completa en su dimensión geográfica y temporal. Con todo, es obvio que los
Diplomacia y comercio en la Europa atlántica medieval, Nov 2015
Este libro tiene por objeto el estudio de la diplomacia y el papel del comercio desde una perspec... more Este libro tiene por objeto el estudio de la diplomacia y el papel del comercio desde una perspectiva comparada y transnacional a lo largo de la Europa Atlántica medieval. Así, se analiza la complejidad de las relaciones internacionales bajomedievales en una etapa en la que los vínculos diplomáticos entre comunidades se hicieron permanentes en Europa, como consecuencia directa de nuevos factores internacionales, como la búsqueda de la paz y la estabilidad en el continente, el diálogo como elemento característico del Otoño de la Edad Media, la multiplicación de las relaciones de todo signo entre el norte y el sur de Europa, la consolidación de los Estados monárquicos europeos más importantes, como España, Francia o Inglaterra, y el surgimiento de una economía de mercado a escala europea. Esta monografía se inscribe en las tareas del proyecto de investigación, titulado Las sociedades urbanas de las ciudades y villas portuarias de la Europa Atlántica en la Baja Edad Media (HAR2012-31801), financiado por el Gobierno de España.
This book aims to study diplomacy and the role of trade from a comparative and transnational perspective throughout medieval Atlantic Europe. Thus, the complexity of international relations in the Late Middles Ages, when diplomatic ties between communities were made permanent in Europe as a direct result of some new international factors, such as the search for peace and stability in the continent, the dialogue as a characteristic element of the Autumn of the Middle Ages, the multiplication of relations between northern and southern Europe, the consolidation of the most relevant European kingdoms, such as Spain, France or England, and emergence of a market economy at European stage. This book is part of a collective research project, entitled Urban societies in the townports of Atlantic Europe in the Later Middle Ages (HAR2012-31801) funded by the Government of Spain.
Papers by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
in Mezzi di scambio non monetari. Merci e servizi come monete alternative nelle economie dei seco... more in Mezzi di scambio non monetari. Merci e servizi come monete alternative nelle economie dei secoli XIII-XVIII/Alternative currencies. Commodities and services as Exchange currencies in the monetarized economies of the 13th to 18th centuries, a cura di A. Orlandi, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2024, pp. 219-235 (Datini Studies in Economic HIstory)
Baldassarre Turini tra la Toscana dei Medici e la Roma di Raffaello. Politica, arte, riformismo religioso (1513-1543), a cura di A. Giannotti - M. Rossi - M. Sangalli, Roma, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae 51), 2023, 2023
in Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History, ed. by T. Burnard, New York, Oxford University Press
The Economic History Review, 2021
† Although this is a jointly authored article, Jim Bolton is chiefly responsible for writing the ... more † Although this is a jointly authored article, Jim Bolton is chiefly responsible for writing the introduction and section I, and Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli for sections II and III; section IV was written together. The authors wish to thank the editor of the Economic History Review, the three anonymous referees, and all the colleagues who, at various stages, have engaged in discussions at the seminars where early versions of this article were presented or contributed by reading drafts of this article or by providing bibliographical materials. 1 Cotrugli, Libro de l'arte della mercatura, p. 76.
Aldobrandino Tanagli and Francesco Cattani: Chancery petition, c. 1490, 2013
Annotated transcription of a Chancery petition (c.1490) by two London-based Italian merchants, ac... more Annotated transcription of a Chancery petition (c.1490) by two London-based Italian merchants, accompanied by a 4,100-word introduction and map: The National Archives: Public Record Office, C1/110/36.
Published on a University of Bristol e-repository:
http://hdl.handle.net/1983/b8265d65-39d6-4f67-be1e-14ac7cbac36e
"The Economic History Review", 2021
(co-authored with J.L. Bolton), “The Economic History Review”, 74, 4 (2021), pp. 873-891
"The Economic History Review", 2021
(co-authored with J.L. Bolton), “The Economic History Review”, 74, 4 (2021), pp. 873-891
in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani-Volume 97 (2020)
in “Ricerche Storiche”, XLIX (2019), n. 3, pp. 31-47
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Events by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
Italian settlers played a crucial role in shaping Nuremberg's commercial and cultural aspects in the early modern period. Despite recognition from historians, there's a notable gap in research about their experiences and stories in Nuremberg. This
highlights the need for comprehensive research to explore the multifaceted journey of these immigrants. Such a study will reveal their personal stories, challenges, and impact on the socio-economic changes of the time. It will also offer insights into
socio-cultural assimilation, intercultural interactions, and the creation of transnational networks, shedding light on the complexities of Nuremberg's development in this period. The conference should have an interdisciplinary approach, integrating historical analysis, economic theory, and sociocultural perspectives, in order to capture the lived experiences, aspirations, and challenges faced by the Italian settlers, as well as
their contributions to the economic, social, and cultural fabric of Nuremberg during this transformative period.
Where: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, 335 Mile End Road, London E1 4FQ (and online)
We are delighted to invite you the launch of the QM History website of the Borromei Bank Research Project, a landmark event in the study of medieval banking and of European monetary history. It is the culmination of two decades of ESRC-funded collaboration between our own Professor Jim Bolton and Professor Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli of the University of Florence & Visiting Reader at QMUL, and will be a major resource for economic and social historians of late medieval Europe. The website provides access to two fifteenth-century ledgers of the Bruges bank and London branch of the Borromei banking family, found in the family private archive of within their palazzo on Isola Bella near Milan. These ledgers contain detailed evidence for fully developed double-entry bookkeeping, with records for seven hundred accountholders, great and small, Italian, Iberian, Flemish, Dutch and English, and further hundreds of customers who took part in transactions with the banks. The database consists of over 23,000 entries translated from the original Italian and then converted to electronic database versions. The database can be searched by accountholders or by free text and gives us unprecedented view of the transformative power of the credit revolution in England and northern Europe, as well as intimate snippets of everyday life, from barber receipts to prices of soap. The website is already up and running and can be accessed here (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/borromei-bank-research/). The launch will celebrate this freely accessible database, which represents a key moment for Digital Humanities in the School, and a template for future projects. It also will celebrate the achievement of Francesco and Jim, leading authorities on money in medieval Europe.
Book now:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borromei-bank-research-website-launch-tickets-687155178637?aff=erelpanelorg
Books by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
Utilising documents from a rich corpus of unpublished sources in Florence and Rome, Guidi Bruscoli unravels the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy, and looks at how money was raised and the appalti managed.
Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part 1 Rome, Florence and the Olivieri: Florentines in Rome; The ascent of the Olivieri family. Part 2 Benvenuto Olivieri and the Apostolic Chamber: The depositary and loans to the pontiff; The papal public debt: venal offices and Monti; The customs of Rome; The provincial treasuries; Indirect and direct taxes; Other activities; The business turnover. Conclusion; Appendix; Manuscript sources; List of cited references; Index
Reviews: ‘This study by Guidi Bruscoli is very important for both economic history and church history’ (Renaissance Quarterly)""
This book aims to study diplomacy and the role of trade from a comparative and transnational perspective throughout medieval Atlantic Europe. Thus, the complexity of international relations in the Late Middles Ages, when diplomatic ties between communities were made permanent in Europe as a direct result of some new international factors, such as the search for peace and stability in the continent, the dialogue as a characteristic element of the Autumn of the Middle Ages, the multiplication of relations between northern and southern Europe, the consolidation of the most relevant European kingdoms, such as Spain, France or England, and emergence of a market economy at European stage. This book is part of a collective research project, entitled Urban societies in the townports of Atlantic Europe in the Later Middle Ages (HAR2012-31801) funded by the Government of Spain.
Papers by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
Published on a University of Bristol e-repository:
http://hdl.handle.net/1983/b8265d65-39d6-4f67-be1e-14ac7cbac36e
Italian settlers played a crucial role in shaping Nuremberg's commercial and cultural aspects in the early modern period. Despite recognition from historians, there's a notable gap in research about their experiences and stories in Nuremberg. This
highlights the need for comprehensive research to explore the multifaceted journey of these immigrants. Such a study will reveal their personal stories, challenges, and impact on the socio-economic changes of the time. It will also offer insights into
socio-cultural assimilation, intercultural interactions, and the creation of transnational networks, shedding light on the complexities of Nuremberg's development in this period. The conference should have an interdisciplinary approach, integrating historical analysis, economic theory, and sociocultural perspectives, in order to capture the lived experiences, aspirations, and challenges faced by the Italian settlers, as well as
their contributions to the economic, social, and cultural fabric of Nuremberg during this transformative period.
Where: Montagu Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre (GC601), Queen Mary University of London, 335 Mile End Road, London E1 4FQ (and online)
We are delighted to invite you the launch of the QM History website of the Borromei Bank Research Project, a landmark event in the study of medieval banking and of European monetary history. It is the culmination of two decades of ESRC-funded collaboration between our own Professor Jim Bolton and Professor Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli of the University of Florence & Visiting Reader at QMUL, and will be a major resource for economic and social historians of late medieval Europe. The website provides access to two fifteenth-century ledgers of the Bruges bank and London branch of the Borromei banking family, found in the family private archive of within their palazzo on Isola Bella near Milan. These ledgers contain detailed evidence for fully developed double-entry bookkeeping, with records for seven hundred accountholders, great and small, Italian, Iberian, Flemish, Dutch and English, and further hundreds of customers who took part in transactions with the banks. The database consists of over 23,000 entries translated from the original Italian and then converted to electronic database versions. The database can be searched by accountholders or by free text and gives us unprecedented view of the transformative power of the credit revolution in England and northern Europe, as well as intimate snippets of everyday life, from barber receipts to prices of soap. The website is already up and running and can be accessed here (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/borromei-bank-research/). The launch will celebrate this freely accessible database, which represents a key moment for Digital Humanities in the School, and a template for future projects. It also will celebrate the achievement of Francesco and Jim, leading authorities on money in medieval Europe.
Book now:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borromei-bank-research-website-launch-tickets-687155178637?aff=erelpanelorg
Utilising documents from a rich corpus of unpublished sources in Florence and Rome, Guidi Bruscoli unravels the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy, and looks at how money was raised and the appalti managed.
Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part 1 Rome, Florence and the Olivieri: Florentines in Rome; The ascent of the Olivieri family. Part 2 Benvenuto Olivieri and the Apostolic Chamber: The depositary and loans to the pontiff; The papal public debt: venal offices and Monti; The customs of Rome; The provincial treasuries; Indirect and direct taxes; Other activities; The business turnover. Conclusion; Appendix; Manuscript sources; List of cited references; Index
Reviews: ‘This study by Guidi Bruscoli is very important for both economic history and church history’ (Renaissance Quarterly)""
This book aims to study diplomacy and the role of trade from a comparative and transnational perspective throughout medieval Atlantic Europe. Thus, the complexity of international relations in the Late Middles Ages, when diplomatic ties between communities were made permanent in Europe as a direct result of some new international factors, such as the search for peace and stability in the continent, the dialogue as a characteristic element of the Autumn of the Middle Ages, the multiplication of relations between northern and southern Europe, the consolidation of the most relevant European kingdoms, such as Spain, France or England, and emergence of a market economy at European stage. This book is part of a collective research project, entitled Urban societies in the townports of Atlantic Europe in the Later Middle Ages (HAR2012-31801) funded by the Government of Spain.
Published on a University of Bristol e-repository:
http://hdl.handle.net/1983/b8265d65-39d6-4f67-be1e-14ac7cbac36e
diplomático permiten, desde la variedad de enfoques, casos, espacios y cronologías, comprender en toda su extensión la complejidad de factores que interactúan en las relaciones diplomáticas de los últimos siglos de la Edad Media, permitiendo a su vez detectar también la evolución en los objetivos, prácticas y modos de operar de sus agentes en el período señalado. ... Con esta nueva aportación de los Encuentros Internacionales del Medievo mantienen, por tanto, esa indudable centralidad historiográfica que han obtenido en el medievalismo hispánico de la última década. Esta reunión científica, centrada en la creación de un espacio de intercambio científico en el que los investigadores hispanos puedan contrastar sus propias realidades historiográficas con las de otros contextos europeos, ha logrado, una vez más, un resultado altamente satisfactorio que sin duda constituirá una referencia historiográfica sobre ambas temáticas en los próximos años.'
(review by R.J. González Zalacaín: http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFIII/article/download/16773/14401)