- Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
- Edited by Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Ozio, attività e lavoro nei libri De familia di Alberti
- Michel Paoli
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.49
Since the Weber-Sombart debate on the birth of capitalism, Alberti's Family Books have been presented as an essential source on the origins of this movement and Alberti himself as a "pioneer of capitalism". The present text aims to show that Alberti is above all an intellectual, who certainly seeks to understand the workings of the business world, particularly in Florence, but who is not in a position to understand it to the end. Indeed, Alberti cannot accept that an individual takes risks to earn even more money when he already has a lot. Nor does he understand how wealth can be created. On the other hand, he knows how to explain very finely how an already rich person can keep his wealth. In this, at least in the De familia books, he is much more "bourgeois" than "capitalist".
- Keywords:
- Enrichment,
- Humanism,
- Bourgeoisie,
- Capitalism,
- Florence,
Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, France
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Ozio, attività e lavoro nei libri De familia di Alberti
Authors
Michel Paoli
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.49
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Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
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2704-5919