Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Sofia Gullino
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/187
Language Italian Pages 30 P. 34-63 File size 205 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2025-187003
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The role of the foreigner during the Ancien Régime has increasingly become the subject of scholarly attention, resulting in a range of broad overviews and detailed analyses of individual case studies. Despite this interest, the Genovese case remains for the most part unexplored in contemporary historiography. In early modern Genoa, the Flemish minority grew increasingly prominent. Beginning with the famine of 1590-91, they settled in the city, playing a pivotal role in its commercial and credit networks. Despite their rising importance, particularly with the arrival of agents from Amsterdam-based companies, the Republic was slow to officially recognize this minority, partly due to its traditional alliance with Spain. Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this study investigates the rise of the “natione fiamenga” in Genoa, with particular emphasis on key figures within the community who contributed to integrating the city into Atlantic trade, serving as crucial links to commercial networks spanning across Europe.
Keywords: Commercial networks, minorities, Flemish nation, free port, Genoese Republic, cereal trade
Sofia Gullino, «Han quasi ridotto tutto il negocio e mercantia in man loro»: la minoranza dei fiamenghi a Genova tra il XVI e il XVII secolo in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 187/2025, pp 34-63, DOI: 10.3280/SS2025-187003