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oapen-20.500.12657-747912023-08-03T14:57:07Z Tessuti di seta tra Firenze e il Levante (ca. 1350-1550) GUIDI BRUSCOLI, FRANCESCO GUIDI BRUSCOLI, FRANCESCO Florence Levant Silk cloth Trade Renaissance bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century. 2023-08-03T14:57:05Z 2023-08-03T14:57:05Z 2023 book ONIX_20230803_9791221500868_10 2704-5986 9791221500868 9791221500875 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/74791 ita Biblioteca di storia application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9791221500868.pdf https://books.fupress.com/isbn/9791221500868 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0086-8 This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century. 10.36253/979-12-215-0086-8 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221500868 9791221500875 44 440 Florence open access
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This study, through the use of hundreds of archival documents over a period of about two centuries, highlights the total reversal in the silk trade that occurred from the beginning of the 15th century: silk cloth no longer crossed the Mediterranean from East to West, as in previous centuries, but from West to East. Jewish, Turkish and Syrians merchants, and above all the Sublime Porte showed continued appreciation for Florentine silks. Through the analysis of the sources, every phase of such export is described in detail: the purchase of the cloths in Florence, their shipment, transport and finally the sale through Florentine correspondents in Constantinople. This flow of silks continued until the first decades of the 16th century, only to decline rapidly around the middle of the century.
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