 Managing Abundance: Victualling Offices and Cereals Merchants in Eighteenth-Century FerraraGiulio Ongaro ()
Chapter Chapter 5 in Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century, 2021, pp 145-173 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This chapter aims to identify the features of the victualling system in eighteenth-century Ferrara. This purpose will be pursued by examining major interventions by public institutions, especially in the management of cereals stocks, even though local agricultural output was considerable. The importance of the interplay between merchants, producers, and public institutions will be highlighted. Regulation of the cereals market, via both the victualling office and the control of import-export flows, was affected by, and itself affected, economic players’ behaviour. Ferrara’s leading merchant families interacted with the victualling office, selling wheat in times of dearth and purchasing it when the office decided to renew its stocks; furthermore, the same families invested in the victualling office via the credit market. Keywords: Cereals market; Legation of Ferrara; Papal States; Food history; Economic history (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-42064-2_5 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42064-2_5 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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