Treaties on the trade of wood are disseminated in Italy only from the affirmation of the industrial economy of wood. The small treatise by Angelo Guernieri (1862) focuses on the many difficulties that characterize each single segment of the timber production chain, also typical of the pre-industrial economy. The paper analyses risk factors for timber traders in the Eastern Alps. By describing the individual segments of the timber supply chain, the most problematic ones will be identified: deforestation and transport. Two cases of timber merchant families will be analysed, reconstructing their role in the communities where they operated and the role of kinship in risk prevention.
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Chapter Title
Fra rischi e opportunità.I mercanti e la filiera del legname nell’area alpina orientale (secoli XVI-XVIII)
Authors
Claudio Lorenzini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.30
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Publication Year
2026
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Book Title
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)
Editors
Angela Orlandi
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Number of Pages
568
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
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
Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
Series E-ISSN
2975-1195