This paper investigates how a broker used his knowledge to create future expectations on the Venetian market in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. To do this, it examines the correspondence of a Florentine broker from the Datini holding company, Talerano di Paolo Mattei, written between 1395 and 1400. This Florentine businessman became a broker because of a debt he owed to Datini, who had released him from prison after he had stolen valuable books from his former employer to sell them himself. This research shows how Talerano perceived the risks that affected the Rialto market and how he used (or did not use) information and knowledge to deal with them.
University of Antwerp, Belgium - ORCID: 0000-0002-9228-9512
Titolo del capitolo
«Credo per la grazia di Dio farei bene». Future thinking and knowledge of a risk (in)expert in late medieval Venice
Autori
Nicolò Zennaro
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.22
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
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)
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
568
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0962-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0963-2
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0964-9
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195