The Genoese nobility: Land, finance and business from restoration to the First World War

Roberto Tolaini

Business History, 2022, vol. 64, issue 2, 297-326

Abstract: The article analyzes the role played by the nobility in the modernization of Genoa, one of the poles of Italian economic development. After the Napoleonic era, in which the city suffered huge financial losses, a part of the aristocracy regained the ability to accumulate capital, thanks to urban income and to agrarian revenues. Since the fifties many nobles, in collaboration with the emerging middle class, took part in the renewal of city economy. Their contribution was significant in the modernization of infrastructure, bank and credit, while it was less relevant in industry, although the interest grew over time.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2020.1801644

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