Keywords:
public finance
credit upon pledge
charitable agencies
Monte di pietà
history of credit
welfare
My research activity is mostly devoted to the evolution of
credit techniques in association with public finance, to the
assessment of economic activities of charitable agencies and to the
shifting economic strategies of families in premodern Italian
cities.Currently research is being conducted in the following
areas: 1) From merchant banking to public banking: changing
credit networks in urban context (15th-19th centuries).
Special attention is devoted to institutional changes caused
by credit crunch and insolvency crises. 2) The early
stages of consumer credit: credit upon pledge and saving strategies
of the lower classes. 3) From communal to state fisc: the changing
fiscal relations from the early modern period to the
modern age.
