Lexington Books
Pages: 214
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-3421-5 • Hardback • February 2017 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-4985-3423-9 • Paperback • February 2020 • $47.99 • (£37.00)
978-1-4985-3422-2 • eBook • February 2017 • $45.50 • (£35.00)
Matteo Salonia Matteo Salonia is assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo. He previously taught at King's College London, the University of Liverpool, and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Part I: Entrepreneurship and Libertà
Chapter 1: Economy, Everyday Life, and the Expansion of Genoa's Colonies
Chapter 2: The Business Network of Giovanni da Pontremoli and Genoa's Anti-Tyrannical Institutions
Chapter 3: Self-Government and Self-Perception: Foreign Protectors, Cosmopolitanism, and the Genoese Identity
Part II: Spain’s “Diabolical” Friends
Chapter 4: Ferdinand the Catholic's Perception of the Genoese and of Their Role in His Economic Policy
Chapter 5: Rejecting the "Machiavellian" State: Genoa's Regimes from the French Fury to the Second Hispanic–Genoese Alliance
Chapter 6: Beginnings of a "Genoese Atlantic"? Tracing the Genoese Experience in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America
Matteo Salonia elegantly and persuasively recasts the history of Genoa by showing the deep roots of Genoese enterprise in the Atlantic and as far away as Chile, roots that he traces back to Genoese colonists halfway across the world, on the shores of the Black Sea and in Tunis in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Underlying his approach is a subtle appreciation of the distinctive entrepreneurial outlook of the Genoese, compared to their Venetian rivals.
— David Abulafia, University of Cambridge
This scholarly but readable book is a welcome addition to our knowledge of the extraordinary Italian city-states of the late middle ages and the early Renaissance and their contributions to Western ideas of republicanism and political and economic freedom.
— Darío Fernández-Morera, Northwestern University