In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy

by Nicholas Scott Baker

Book Overview

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan - Nicholas Scott Baker examines how merchants and gamblers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108843883
• ISBN13: 9781108843881
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"