Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) • Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries)
Prato, 11-15 maggio 2025
PROGRAMMA
Domenica 11 maggio
17.30, Sala Maggiore del Palazzo Comunale
• APERTURA DEI LAVORI:
Saluti
• Prolusione
Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter, Cornwall)
Lunedì 12 maggio
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
09.00-13.00
I – CONCETTI, DEFINIZIONI E CONSIDERAZIONI TEORICHE/CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Thomas Max Safley (Philadelphia Univ.), Understanding Uncertainty : Reflections on Insolvency, Bankruptcy and ‘Risk’ in the Sixteenth Century
Tommaso Stefini (Sabanci Univ.), Venetian creditors and Ottoman defaulters: handling bankruptcy in seventeenth-century Istanbul
Tanja Skambraks (Karl-Franzens-Univ.), Preventing private insolvency through microcredit. Case studies from late medieval and early modern Italy and Germany (15th to 17th century)
Tommaso Stefini (Sabanci Univ.), Venetian creditors and Ottoman defaulters: handling bankruptcy in seventeenth-century Istanbul
Tanja Skambraks (Karl-Franzens-Univ.), Preventing private insolvency through microcredit. Case studies from late medieval and early modern Italy and Germany (15th to 17th century)
II – ISTITUZIONI: QUADRI NORMATIVI E REGOLAMENTARI/INSTITUTIONS: NORMATIVE AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
Lluís Sales i Favà (Univ. Nova de Lisboa), The courts of the local bailiffs in Medieval Mallorca. Shared jurisdictional mechanisms to prevent nonpayment and insolvency (XIVth-XVth c.)
Dave De Ruysscher (Tilburg Univ./Vrije Univ. Brussels), The emergence of a municipal legal culture of insolvency (Low Countries, c. 1450-c. 1570)
Dave De Ruysscher (Tilburg Univ./Vrije Univ. Brussels), The emergence of a municipal legal culture of insolvency (Low Countries, c. 1450-c. 1570)
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
15.00-18.00
II – ISTITUZIONI: QUADRI NORMATIVI E REGOLAMENTARI/INSTITUTIONS: NORMATIVE AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS
Joris van den Tol (Radboud Univ.), Limiting risks in the Dutch processing industry, 1600-1800
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán (Leibniz Univ. Hannover), «Es politica segura y obligazion precissa evitar la mayor ruina». The redefinition of the legal framework for municipal debt restructuring in the Spanish Crown of Aragon (1715-1750)
Elena García Guerra (Univ. Complutense de Madrid), Ángel Alloza Aparicio (Inst. de Historia del CSIC, Madrid), Francisco Fernández Izquierdo (Inst. de Historia del CSIC, Madrid), Pedro Porras Arboledas – Isabella Cecchini (Ist. di St. dell’Europa Mediterranea, CNR), Giuseppe De Luca (Univ. di Milano), El ocaso de una gran casa financiera: los Fugger ¿Qué repercusiones tuvo para la Monarquía Hispánica? Primeros resultados de investigación
Íñigo Ena Sanjuán (Leibniz Univ. Hannover), «Es politica segura y obligazion precissa evitar la mayor ruina». The redefinition of the legal framework for municipal debt restructuring in the Spanish Crown of Aragon (1715-1750)
Elena García Guerra (Univ. Complutense de Madrid), Ángel Alloza Aparicio (Inst. de Historia del CSIC, Madrid), Francisco Fernández Izquierdo (Inst. de Historia del CSIC, Madrid), Pedro Porras Arboledas – Isabella Cecchini (Ist. di St. dell’Europa Mediterranea, CNR), Giuseppe De Luca (Univ. di Milano), El ocaso de una gran casa financiera: los Fugger ¿Qué repercusiones tuvo para la Monarquía Hispánica? Primeros resultados de investigación
• 18.00 – Riunione del Comitato Scientifico
Martedì, 13 maggio
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
09.00-13.00
III – PROPRIETARI TERRIERI E PRODUTTORI/LANDOWNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
L.M. Lewis Wade (Leiden Univ.), Manufacturing Markets: Managing the Industrial Risks of Franco-Asian Commerce, 1683–1702
Benjamin Hitz (Basel Univ.), Urban real estate – a risky capital investment? Real estate markets in Basel, 1300 to 1700
Martino Lorenzo Fagnani (Univ. di Pavia), L’introduzione di “nuove” coltivazioni tra rischio, scienza e tecnica: il Nord Italia nel XVIII secolo
Matteo Di Tullio (Univ. di Pavia), La condivisione del rischio in agricoltura: istituzioni e pratiche di cooperazione nella Lombardia d’età moderna
Preston Perluss (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Monastic Risk management Examples from Eighteenth Century Parisian Monasteries
Benjamin Hitz (Basel Univ.), Urban real estate – a risky capital investment? Real estate markets in Basel, 1300 to 1700
Martino Lorenzo Fagnani (Univ. di Pavia), L’introduzione di “nuove” coltivazioni tra rischio, scienza e tecnica: il Nord Italia nel XVIII secolo
Matteo Di Tullio (Univ. di Pavia), La condivisione del rischio in agricoltura: istituzioni e pratiche di cooperazione nella Lombardia d’età moderna
Preston Perluss (Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Monastic Risk management Examples from Eighteenth Century Parisian Monasteries
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
15.00-18.00
IV/1 – MERCANTI E OPERATORI FINANZIARI/MERCHANTS AND FINANCIAL OPERATORS
Mark Steele (Hadlow Historical Society), Bankruptcy procedures and financial crisis in late 16th. C. Seville, – with special reference to the de Morga and de Espinosa banks in the 1570s.
Markus A. Denzel (Univ. Leipzig), From Risk Management to Resilience Management.Strategies and Instruments of Upper German Merchant Bankers in the ‘long’ 16th Century for Avoiding Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Tessa de Boer – Ramona Negrón (Leiden Univ.), Ad Imperium et Ultra: a comparative assessment of risk-mitigating strategies in early modern cross-colonial exploitation
Carlos Álvarez Nogal (Univ. Carlos III Madrid), Sergio Sardone (Univ. di Napoli Federico II), La crisi dei banchi pubblici sivigliani di metà Cinquecento: il fallimento di Domingo de Lizarrazas del 1553
Markus A. Denzel (Univ. Leipzig), From Risk Management to Resilience Management.Strategies and Instruments of Upper German Merchant Bankers in the ‘long’ 16th Century for Avoiding Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Tessa de Boer – Ramona Negrón (Leiden Univ.), Ad Imperium et Ultra: a comparative assessment of risk-mitigating strategies in early modern cross-colonial exploitation
Carlos Álvarez Nogal (Univ. Carlos III Madrid), Sergio Sardone (Univ. di Napoli Federico II), La crisi dei banchi pubblici sivigliani di metà Cinquecento: il fallimento di Domingo de Lizarrazas del 1553
• 18.00 – Riunione della “Giunta” del Comitato scientifico
Mercoledì, 14 maggio
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
09.00-13.00
IV/1 – MERCANTI E OPERATORI FINANZIARI/MERCHANTS AND FINANCIAL OPERATORS
Nicolò Zennaro (Univ. of Antwerp), “Credo per la grazia di Dio farei bene”. Future thinking and knowledge of a risk (in)expert in late medieval Venice
Benedetto Ligorio (Sapienza, Roma), Economia della connettività marittima. Commercio e assicurazioni della Repubblica di Ragusa – Dubrovnik nel Rinascimento Europeo
Jerònia Pons, Juan Carpio (Univ. de Sevilla), The Tribunal of the Inquisition in Majorca and the bankruptcy induced in the business of Majorcan Jewish converts (1677-1682)
Benedetto Ligorio (Sapienza, Roma), Economia della connettività marittima. Commercio e assicurazioni della Repubblica di Ragusa – Dubrovnik nel Rinascimento Europeo
Jerònia Pons, Juan Carpio (Univ. de Sevilla), The Tribunal of the Inquisition in Majorca and the bankruptcy induced in the business of Majorcan Jewish converts (1677-1682)
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
15.00-18.00
IV/2 – MERCANTI E OPERATORI FINANZIARI/MERCHANTS AND FINANCIAL OPERATORS
María Dolores López (Univ. de Barcelona), Estrategias de gestión del riesgo en la Barcelona del siglo XV : los negocios asegurativos del mercader Torralba
Maya Zellweger (Univ. of Zurich), The best decision in long distance trading – result of dynamic interaction by means of weekly business correspondence. Risk Management of the linen merchants Zellweger from Trogen in the trading triangle Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Lyon and Genoa, 1750 to 1820
Markus Berger (Otto-Friedrich-Univ., Bamberg), Bankrupt but not Insolvent ? The case of Augsburg merchant Konrad Rott and his bankruptcy in 1580
Magnus Ressel (Univ. Bremen), Vertical integration as a mode of risk minimization. Specht et Gonzebat in Lyon in the early eighteenth century
Maya Zellweger (Univ. of Zurich), The best decision in long distance trading – result of dynamic interaction by means of weekly business correspondence. Risk Management of the linen merchants Zellweger from Trogen in the trading triangle Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Lyon and Genoa, 1750 to 1820
Markus Berger (Otto-Friedrich-Univ., Bamberg), Bankrupt but not Insolvent ? The case of Augsburg merchant Konrad Rott and his bankruptcy in 1580
Magnus Ressel (Univ. Bremen), Vertical integration as a mode of risk minimization. Specht et Gonzebat in Lyon in the early eighteenth century
Giovedì, 15 maggio
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
09.00-13.00
V – PRATICHE E CONTENZIOSI/PRACTICES AND LITIGATION
Klas Nyberg (Stockholm Univ.), Risk management and financial networks in the textile trades in 18th-century Stockholm. Tailors, court tailors, fashioners, dressmakers and sewers as creditors and debtors in bankruptcy files, c. 1765-1799
Cédric Quertier (CNRS), Pour une approche globale des faillites florentine dans les années 1330-1340: premiers éléments d’analyse sérielle des procès devant le tribunal de la Mercanzia de Florence
Tomás Pinto de Albuquerque (Univ. de Lisboa), Risk, bankruptcies, and insolvency in the Atlantic Ocean in the eighteenth century
Jeroen Puttevils (Univ. of Antwerp), Risk-lovers Paradise : lotteries and risk-taking in the Low Countries, 1441-1616
Claudio Lorenzini (Univ. di Torino), Fra rischi e opportunità. I mercanti e la filiera del legname nell’area alpina orientale (secoli XVI-XVIII)
Cédric Quertier (CNRS), Pour une approche globale des faillites florentine dans les années 1330-1340: premiers éléments d’analyse sérielle des procès devant le tribunal de la Mercanzia de Florence
Tomás Pinto de Albuquerque (Univ. de Lisboa), Risk, bankruptcies, and insolvency in the Atlantic Ocean in the eighteenth century
Jeroen Puttevils (Univ. of Antwerp), Risk-lovers Paradise : lotteries and risk-taking in the Low Countries, 1441-1616
Claudio Lorenzini (Univ. di Torino), Fra rischi e opportunità. I mercanti e la filiera del legname nell’area alpina orientale (secoli XVI-XVIII)
Ridotto – Teatro Politeama Pratese
15.00-18.00
CONCLUSIONI – Tavola rotonda
Cátia Antunes
Thomas Max Safley
Dave De Ruysscher
Tanja Skambraks
Cédric Quertier
Thomas Max Safley
Dave De Ruysscher
Tanja Skambraks
Cédric Quertier