Rachele Scuro
Ph.D. Medieval History - Università degli Studi di Siena
Laurea v.o. History - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0039-2660
Main research areas:
- history of the Jews (Middle Ages and early modern period)
- history of banking and the credit market
- history of Venice and the Venetian State
Postdoctoral fellow at the dept. of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Team member of the ERC Project "Water-Cultures. The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900" (PI prof. D. Gentilcore)
Address: Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Malcanton Marcorà - Dorsoduro 3484/D
30123 Venezia (Italia)
Laurea v.o. History - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0039-2660
Main research areas:
- history of the Jews (Middle Ages and early modern period)
- history of banking and the credit market
- history of Venice and the Venetian State
Postdoctoral fellow at the dept. of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Team member of the ERC Project "Water-Cultures. The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900" (PI prof. D. Gentilcore)
Address: Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Malcanton Marcorà - Dorsoduro 3484/D
30123 Venezia (Italia)
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Il capitolo analizza la diffusione del culto di san Rocco a Venezia e nella Terraferma veneta nel XV e XVI secolo, a confronto con le accuse di impurità economica predicate dai minoriti ai danni dell'attività di prestito ebraico.
The enclosure of the Venetian ghetto was originally established in 1516, imposed on the Jewish minority by the Serenissima. In a short span of time that social and physical area became progressively more intricated, due to the forced coexistence of different (often rival) Jewish groups. This paper explores, through a microhistory perspective, and the use of notarial sources, the creation of a common space for the minority, both as an identitarian and a living space, during the 16th century.
In the early modern period hoarded jewels and precious stones performed diversified functions, ranging from the cultural to the socio-economic sphere. This article analyses their use as an alternative to cash in 16th-century Venice, focusing on the case study of the Jewish ghetto. The aim is to investigate how those objects were employed in the credit market (and to perform advanced financial business) and to test their interchangeability with metal currency; if not their preferred recourse. To enhance this trend, Renaissance Venice was experiencing widespread access to those items among a large part of the population. How women could profit from those money-equivalent goods, thanks to the peculiarities of Venetian law in the matter of dowries and inheritance, will be also examined.
Open access book (high res) <https://edoc.unibas.ch/84381/>
in Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750. Objects, Affects, Effects, (eds.) S. Burghartz, L. Burkart, Ch. Göttler, U. Rublak, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2021, pp. 101-136 (ISBN 9789463728959). <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728959/materialized-identities-in-early-modern-culture-1450-1750#toc>
Il capitolo analizza la diffusione del culto di san Rocco a Venezia e nella Terraferma veneta nel XV e XVI secolo, a confronto con le accuse di impurità economica predicate dai minoriti ai danni dell'attività di prestito ebraico.
The enclosure of the Venetian ghetto was originally established in 1516, imposed on the Jewish minority by the Serenissima. In a short span of time that social and physical area became progressively more intricated, due to the forced coexistence of different (often rival) Jewish groups. This paper explores, through a microhistory perspective, and the use of notarial sources, the creation of a common space for the minority, both as an identitarian and a living space, during the 16th century.
In the early modern period hoarded jewels and precious stones performed diversified functions, ranging from the cultural to the socio-economic sphere. This article analyses their use as an alternative to cash in 16th-century Venice, focusing on the case study of the Jewish ghetto. The aim is to investigate how those objects were employed in the credit market (and to perform advanced financial business) and to test their interchangeability with metal currency; if not their preferred recourse. To enhance this trend, Renaissance Venice was experiencing widespread access to those items among a large part of the population. How women could profit from those money-equivalent goods, thanks to the peculiarities of Venetian law in the matter of dowries and inheritance, will be also examined.
Open access book (high res) <https://edoc.unibas.ch/84381/>
in Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750. Objects, Affects, Effects, (eds.) S. Burghartz, L. Burkart, Ch. Göttler, U. Rublak, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2021, pp. 101-136 (ISBN 9789463728959). <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463728959/materialized-identities-in-early-modern-culture-1450-1750#toc>
OPEN ACCESS --> <http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/i-centri-minori-italiani-nel-tardo-medioevo/3766>, <http://www.fupress.com/archivio/pdf/3766_15589.pdf>.
Open access PDF (ISBN 978-88-999487-78-2) https://www.newdigitalfrontiers.com/it/book/uomini-del-contado-e-uomini-di-citta-nell-italia-settentrionale-del-xvi-secolo_99/
Il saggio breve è contenuto nel catalogo della mostra (Venezia, Palazzo ducale, 19 giugno - 13 novembre 2016); il catalogo è disponibile anche in lingua inglese.
The economic role of Ashkenazi and Italian Jews in early modern Italy is traditionally associated with money-lending and second-hand goods retailing. Yet, fiscal and notarial sources show how beneath the surface of the charters signed between the minority and the local authorities, their business was far more diversified. In the northern and central Peninsula Jews had built a strong network based on endogenous and exogenous trust which permitted them to also engage in (inter)regional trade. From the early sixteenth century, when the establishment of the ghettos and changes in the economic system made banking far less lucrative, trading in commodities became a profitable alternative. The case studies of Mantua and the Venetian state show how this process was also strictly intertwined with the local political environment, as Jews had to resort to different sorts of informal and formal relationships with local power structures in order to take part in the grain trade.
Online open access: <https://www.unive.it/media/allegato/dipartimenti/studi_storici/Scuro.pdf>
Rags, pearls, silks and loans: second-hand retailing and the credit market in the 16th century Venetian ghetto, in CHORD: the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (<https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/>), based at the University of Wolverhampton, blog post: 07 May 2021, url <https://retailhistory.wordpress.com/2021/05/07/venice/>
<https://www.materializedidentities.com/single-post/2017/07/14/Matters-of-Colour-Glass-Objects-in-a-Rainbow-of-Shades-in-Renaissance-Venice>
<https://www.materializedidentities.com/single-post/2017/02/13/The-Museo-del-Vetro-in-Murano-A-Visit-Worth-Making>
<https://www.materializedidentities.com/single-post/2016/11/21/Venetian-Glass-Beads-A-Subtle-Commodity>
Conference part of the ERC project "The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900", AdG n. 833834 (PI prof. D. Gentilcore).
Seminar series' scientific committee: prof. David Gentilcore, Dr Gaia Bruno, Dr Lavinia Maddaluno, Dr Giacomo Savani, Dr Oscar Schiavone, Dr Rachele Scuro, Dr Salvatore Valenti.
Seminar series' scientific committee: prof. David Gentilcore, Dr Gaia Bruno, Dr Lavinia Maddaluno, Dr Oscar Schiavone, Dr Rachele Scuro, Dr Salvatore Valenti.
ERC AdG (grant agreement n° 833834), PI prof. David Gentilcore, Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Seminar series' scientific committee: prof. D. Gentilcore, dr G. Bruno, dr L. Maddaluno, dr O. Schiavone, dr R. Scuro, dr S. Valenti.
This conference is part of the ERC AdG project "The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900" (PI prof. D. Gentilcore, grant agreement nr 833834).
We regret that due to space constraints, the event is only open to the public via Zoom. Please, use the link available in the programme to request attendance.
30 May 2023
(in Venice and online; languages: Italian and English)
This workshop is part of the ERC AdG project "Water-Cultures. The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900" (ERC AdG nr. 833834, PI prof. D. Gentilcore) based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
<https://pric.unive.it/projects/water-cultures/home>
Programma del 3^ ciclo di seminari (gennaio-giugno 2023) / Programme of the 3rd seminar series (January-June 2023)
Comitato organizzatore: prof. David Gentilcore, dott.ssa Gaia Bruno, dott.ssa Lavinia Maddaluno, dott.ssa Rachele Scuro, dott. Salvatore Valenti
Programma del 2^ ciclo di seminari (ottobre-dicembre 2022)
Comitato organizzatore: prof. D. Gentilcore, dott.ssa G. Bruno, dott.ssa L. Maddaluno, dott.ssa R. Scuro, dott. S. Valenti.
Febbraio-Giugno 2022
Comitato organizzatore: prof. D. Gentilcore, dott. G. Bonan, dott.ssa G. Bruno, dott.ssa L. Maddaluno, dott.ssa R. Scuro, dott. S. Valenti.
Sito del progetto: https://pric.unive.it/projects/water-cultures/home
This conference is part of the ERC project "Water-Cultures. The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900", AdG n. 833834 (PI prof. D. Gentilcore).