Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa and the Mediterranean
Final meeting of the Atlantic Italies Network
International conference organized by Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice) and Roberto Zaugg (Universität Zürich) hosted at the University of Zurich and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation grant Atlantic Italies: Economic and Cultural Entanglements (15th-19th Centuries).
Thursday 1 September
13.00 Reception
13.20 Roberto Zaugg (Universität Zürich) – Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice), Introduction
Session 1 – chair: Riccardo E. Rossi (Universität Zürich)
13.40 Andrea Guerrero Mosquera (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México), “Spies” and missionaries: the first Capuchins in Central Africa
14.10 Thiago Sapede (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador), The political and economic role of Italian Capuchins in the global stakes of power
involving Kongo and Portugal (18th-19th centuries)
14.40 Discussion
15.30 Coffee break
Session 2 – chair: Carlo Taviani (Universität Zürich)
16.00 Giulia Bonazza (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia / Columbia University New York), Slavery and the Black presence in Italian cities from the Atlantic colonies in the second half of the 18th century
16.30 Alessandro Tuccillo (Università di Torino), Suspicious ships: the Kingdom of Sardinia and the campaign for the suppression of the Atlantic slave trade
17.00 Discussion
17.50 End of day one
Friday 2 September
Session 3 – chair: Eva Brugger (Universität Zürich)
10.20 Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (Università di Firenze), Breaking boundaries: Florentine merchants and the Atlantic (15th-16th Centuries)
10.50 Pierre Niccolò Sofia (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice), Venice and its connection with the Atlantic trade in the 18th century: a matter of glass beads and sugar
11.20 Discussion
12.10 Lunch
Session 4 – chair: Ingrid Greenfield (I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
14.00 Fabiano Bracht (Universidade do Porto), Follow the money: the emergence of a knowledge economy from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean (15th to 16th centuries)
14.30 Gisele Cristina da Conceição (Universitdad do Porto), Domenico Vandelli between knowledge and power: production and circulation of natural philosophical knowledge in the 18th century
15.00 Discussion
15.50 Coffee break
Session 5 – chair: Ingrid Greenfield (I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
16.20 Samir Boumediene (Université de Lyon), American Gifts: the economies of New World naturalia in early modern Italy
16.50 Riccardo E. Rossi (Universität Zürich), (Inter-)connected ‘hinterlands’? Trade, retail and consumption of Atlantic goods in the Alpine valleys of the Three Leagues, 1630s to 1790s
17.20 Discussion
18.10 End of day two
Saturday 3 September
Session 6 – chair: Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice)
09.00 Nicholas Baker (Macquarie University, Sidney), Dipping a toe in the Atlantic: The Botti of Florence
09.30 Maarten Draper (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Italian merchants in Amsterdam and their role in Dutch colonial trade, 1650-1700
10.00 Discussion
10.50 Coffee break
Session 7 – chair: Giulio Talini (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli)
11.20 Carlo Taviani (Universität Zürich), Crossing the Sahara or the ocean? The Genoese Marihoni and Cattaneo families and their business, ca. 1450-1530
11.50 Steven Teasdale (University of Toronto), The Lomellini family in the Canary Islands: Genoese economic and cultural networks in the early sixteenth century Atlantic
12.20 Discussion
13.10 Lunch
Session 8 – chair: Giulio Talini (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli)
15.00 Antonio Iodice (Università di Genova / University of Exeter), Atlantic goods, Mediterranean waters: Genoa’s entrepôt through maritime averages procedures, 1590-1700
15.30 Catia Brilli (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese), The scope and the limits of the Genoese persistence in the Atlantic economy (18th century)
16.00 Discussion
16.50 End of conference
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