Cultures of Exchange

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, and Germano Maifreda

Part I - The Context: A Network of Diversities

Revising a Paradigm: Florence, Capitalism, and International Trade
William Caferro

Florentine Merchants and Texts in Translation (c. 1460–75)
Laura Ingallinella

Coordinating Color across the Medieval Mediterranean: Dyestuffs and their Exchange in an Era of Growth (c.1000–1350)
Stephanie Leitzel

Swallowed by the Leviathan: Transmission and Transformation of Italian Public Banks in the Spanish Empire, XV–XVI cc.
Sama Mammadova

Baldassare Degli Embriachi, World Maps, and Trade Networks
Joanne Morice

Transgressing Periphery, Dressing Otherness: Locating Geo-Cultural Spaces of
Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean
Roberta Morosini

Global Exchange, Then and Now: The Digital Discovery of Dati’s La Sfera
Laura Morreale

Part II - Cultures of Exchange and their Discontents

Dante and the Merchants: A Portrait of Ambivalence
Teodolinda Barolini

Practical Mathematical Knowledge and Economic Dynamics in the Italian South
Maria Teresa De Luca

Allegorical Economies: Fortune, Reason, and the Cultures of Exchange in Late Medieval France and Italy
Filippo Petricca

Born under Mercury: God’s Influence on the Future Perspective of the Medieval Italian Merchant
Nicolò Zennaro

Part III - Money and Wealth

The Importance of Coins: Messer Torello’s Story by Master of Charles of Durazzo
Elsa Filosa

Between the Decameron and the Bill of Exchange: New Insights on Medieval Merchants’ Notebooks
Stefano Locatelli

For the Salvation of His Soul? The Merchant Marco Carelli and His Fabulous Donation
Martina Saltamacchia

Part IV - The Ethics of Exchange

Tracing Representations of Domestic Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Beatrice Arduini

Translating Moral Economy: Vernacular, Scholastic Thought and Mercantile
Culture
Giovanni Ceccarelli

The Treatment of Piracy and Robbery in the Decameron
Alessandro Ceteroni

Part V - Society, and the Politics of Exchange

Dante and Production/Dante and Wealth/Boccaccio and Mercantile Ethics
Susanna Barsella

The Representation of Political Economy in Venetian Chronicles c. 1300–c. 1500
Giorgio Lizzul

Jewish Women’s Agency in Premodern Trade: Evidences from an (Infamous) Inquisitorial Trial (Trent, 1475–76)
Germano Maifreda

A Money-changer as Would-be Noble in Medieval Venice
Alan M. Stahl

An Ottoman-Venetian Merchant in the Sultan’s Service: Alvise Gritti (c. 1480–1534) and the
Competing Ottoman-Habsburg Universalisms in the Early Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean
Ebru Turan