This essay focuses on the retail trade and shops in Livorno during the eighteenth century. Archival research has uncovered a rich group of inventories that testify to the range and quality of the wares on offer in the shops lining the via Ferdinanda. They also provide remarkable evidence concerning the interior decoration and fittings of these shops, showing that they could vie with those in other Italian cities. By 1777 a new shop became the most fashionable in town; the Negozio del Veneziano, run jointly by Giacinto Micali and his son, emerged as the unchallenged attraction for the nobility and the grand tourists largely due to the fact that this was no mere warehouse but rather a showroom modelled on the example set by his British...
International audienceAt the beginning of the 17th century, the Tuscan port of Livorno was a new cit...
By examining a wealth of archival materials, this chapter casts further light on the networks linkin...
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinc...
This essay focuses on the retail trade and shops in Livorno during the eighteenth century. Archival...
During the course of the eighteenth century Livorno played an important role in the art market, thou...
In April 1787 a "puff" in the Gazzetta di Parma announced that the Livorno based company of Giacinto...
The essay proposes a focus on the role played by the port in Livorno in trade connected to the produ...
For centuries, the free port of Livorno has played a key role in the European and Mediterranean art ...
The eighteenth century was a period of formidable economic and cultural achievement for Britain. The...
Il saggio illustra la rete commerciale sviluppatasi tra Carrara, l'Europa e gli Stati Uniti grazie a...
Livorno in the early modern period for commercial and economic reasons was the site of rich British ...
The community of British merchants in Livorno, originating in the late sixteenth century, was from t...
The paper first focuses on the history of the urban places devoted to the commerce in the towns of t...
Eighteenth-century consumption is often characterised in terms of an expanding world of goods, one t...
The essay discusses the climate of revival in late nineteenth century Europe, wherein Renaissance ar...
International audienceAt the beginning of the 17th century, the Tuscan port of Livorno was a new cit...
By examining a wealth of archival materials, this chapter casts further light on the networks linkin...
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinc...
This essay focuses on the retail trade and shops in Livorno during the eighteenth century. Archival...
During the course of the eighteenth century Livorno played an important role in the art market, thou...
In April 1787 a "puff" in the Gazzetta di Parma announced that the Livorno based company of Giacinto...
The essay proposes a focus on the role played by the port in Livorno in trade connected to the produ...
For centuries, the free port of Livorno has played a key role in the European and Mediterranean art ...
The eighteenth century was a period of formidable economic and cultural achievement for Britain. The...
Il saggio illustra la rete commerciale sviluppatasi tra Carrara, l'Europa e gli Stati Uniti grazie a...
Livorno in the early modern period for commercial and economic reasons was the site of rich British ...
The community of British merchants in Livorno, originating in the late sixteenth century, was from t...
The paper first focuses on the history of the urban places devoted to the commerce in the towns of t...
Eighteenth-century consumption is often characterised in terms of an expanding world of goods, one t...
The essay discusses the climate of revival in late nineteenth century Europe, wherein Renaissance ar...
International audienceAt the beginning of the 17th century, the Tuscan port of Livorno was a new cit...
By examining a wealth of archival materials, this chapter casts further light on the networks linkin...
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinc...