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"The early sixteenth century was a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control. Nowhere was this more true than the area contested by Milan and Venice, an area constantly crossed and occupied by rival armies. Investigating the impact of successive crises upon the inhabitants of the Po Valley, this book challenges many fundamental assumptions about the relationship between war and economic development and draws conclusion that have implications for early-modern Europe as a whole"--Provided by publisher.
List of contents
Contents: Introduction. Part I Politicking: Producing the territory; Governing the places. Part II Managing Resources: Collecting resources; Spending; Redistributing. Conclusions; Statistical appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Matteo Di Tullio is a Research Fellow at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), where he teaches economic history. He is a member of the 'Dondena' Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy) and an associate member of the Centre de Recherches Historiques de l'Ouest (CERHIO, Rennes 2 University, France). His principal fields of research are the history of the dynamics of the concentration and distributions of wealth, the history of the management of resources (environmental and economical) in local communities, rural history, the history of tax and finance, and demographic history in the pre-industrial era. He is co-author of a book on the budgets of the State of Milan under the French dominions of the sixteenth century (Stati di Guerra. I bilanci della Lombardia francese del primo Cinquecento, Rome: ÿcole française de Rome 2014, with L. Fois) and he is co-editor of a book on the interactions between the economy and the environment in pre-industrial Italy (Storia economica e ambiente italiano, Milan: Franco Angeli 2012, with G. Alfani and L. Mocarelli).
Summary
The early-sixteenth century was a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control. Nowhere was this more true than the area contested by Milan and Venice, an area constantly crossed and occupied by rival armies.
