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This is original content, published in Open Access. It is also available to read for free online at https://media.fupress.com/files/epub/24/2521/2521_21827
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This work aims at filling some historiographical gaps concerning the economy and the commercial activities of Naples and its satellite ports in the decades around the turn of the fifteenth century using unusual and complicated sources such as Tuscan trading practices and Venetian tariffs. To the analysis of these materials the study of commercial letters sent to the Merchant of Prato by operators present in those areas was added. This addition offers two levels of interpretation, the first of which concerns the methodological aspects of the research. From the second, the one of results, a particularly articulated picture emerges in which the Neapolitan region appears as an attractive outlet market for woollen cloths and silk drapes manufactured in the cities of central-northern Italy and, at the same time, as an important supply market of some raw materials and many foodstuffs.
Questo lavoro si propone di colmare alcuni vuoti storiografici riguardanti l'economia e le attività commerciali di Napoli e dei suoi porti satelliti nei decenni a cavallo del Quattrocento utilizzando fonti inconsuete e di difficile uso come le pratiche di mercatura toscane e le tariffe veneziane. All'analisi di quei materiali si è aggiunto lo studio di lettere commerciali spedite al Mercante di Prato da operatori presenti su quelle piazze. Ciò offre due piani di lettura il primo, dei quali riguarda gli aspetti metodologici della ricerca. Dal secondo, quello dei risultati, emerge un quadro particolarmente articolato in cui la regione napoletana appare come un appetibile mercato di sbocco per i panni di lana e i drappi serici confezionati nelle città dell'Italia centro-settentrionale e al tempo stesso un importante mercato di approvvigionamento di alcune materie prime e molte derrate alimentari.
It is available online at https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-309-0