Date: 2023
Type: Article
Reinterpreting the Tuscan economy in the long seventeenth century : new perspectives for research from two rediscovered archives
Journal of European economic history, 2023, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 77-94
CALCAGNI, Matteo, Reinterpreting the Tuscan economy in the long seventeenth century : new perspectives for research from two rediscovered archives, Journal of European economic history, 2023, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 77-94
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77362
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The period beginning with the rule of Ferdinando II, in 1628, and ending with the death of Cosimo III, in 1723, has not benefited from the historiographic attention it deserves, at least in the last two decades. The lack of interest in this long period of Tuscan history, during which processes took place that delineated many of the fundamental characteristics of the economy and culture of the Medicean Grand Duchy, has distant origins and is rooted in an overall vision that identifies the seventeenth century, if not in decline, at any rate as the least significant period. Adding to the disinterest and encouraging the dismissive judgement of the Medicean seventeenth century is the incontrovertible fact of the dearth of writings on Tuscan history composed during that period. In fact, as is generally known, the first work dealing with seventeenth-century Tuscan history was published by Riguccio Galluzzi in 1781. The work, commissioned by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, was part of a complex ideological programme that aimed, through the reconstruction of the Medici government, to historically legitimize the continuity between the extinct ruling dynasty and the Hapsburg-Lorraine dynasty, and ultimately to exalt the reformist process undertaken by the latter.
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Published: July 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77362
ISSN: 2499-8281; 0391-5115
Publisher: Bancaria Editrice
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