Research Catalog

Title

Calamities and the economy in Renaissance Italy : the grand tour of the horsemen of the apocalypse / Guido Alfani, Associate Professor of Economic History, Bocconi University, Italy ; translated by Christine Calvert.

Author

Alfani, Guido, 1976-

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Description

xii, 257 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death. Guido Alfani considers the short-term effects of the calamities affecting Renaissance Italy as well as the impact they had, in the medium- and long-term, on the general economic and demographic trend of the peninsula. The calamities are shown to be not only the source of destruction, but also the cause of a significant redistribution of population and wealth; in other words, they produced winners as well as losers. This overall picture of the economic conditions of Italy in the late Renaissance challenges the received wisdom that suggests, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Italian economy was still healthy, innovating and dynamic."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Early modern history: society and culture

Uniform Title

• Grand tour dei cavalieri dell'Apocalisse. English
• Early modern history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Alternative Title

Grand tour dei cavalieri dell'Apocalisse.

Subject

• 1500-1599
• Renässansen
• 1500-talet
• History, 16th Century
• Starvation > history
• Socioeconomic Factors > history
• Population Dynamics > history
• Plague > history
• Disasters > economics
• Warfare
• Plague > history > Italy
• Population Dynamics > history > Italy
• Socioeconomic Factors > history > Italy
• Starvation > history > Italy
• Italy
• Italy > History > 16th century
• Italy > Social conditions > 16th century
• Italy > Economic conditions > 16th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from Italian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- War -- Famine -- Plague -- Winners and losers -- Population and the economy : underlying trends -- Conclusion: towards the seventeenth century -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781137289766
• 1137289767

LCCN

^^2012045615

OCLC

• 822971474
• SCSB-12002227

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library