Professor Francesco Guidi Bruscoli
Senior Research Fellow
Email: f.guidi@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 6930
Profile
Research
Research Interests:
My research, in the broad field of Economic history, mainly concerns the activity of Italian merchants abroad. Their business involved international trade, exchange by means of written instruments and loans to sovereign and popes. My research both investigates their business techniques, and their international networks, focusing not only on trade and balance of trade but also on merchants’ strategies of settlement abroad, their interaction with local markets, their collaboration and/or competition with each other.
- Economic History
- Banking History
- Late Medieval European History
Publications
Publications
Books
- Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome. Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534–1549 (link is external) (Aldershot, 2007)
- Benvenuto Olivieri, i mercatores fiorentini e la Camera apostolica nella Roma di Paolo III Farnese (1534-1549) (link is external) (Florence, 2000)
Articles
- ‘Trade Networks’, in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation (link is external), ed. M. King, New York, Oxford University Press, 29-08-2012, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399301-0149
- ‘John Cabot and his Italian financiers’, Historical Research (link is external), vol. 85, n. 229 (2012), pp. 372-93
- ‘Banking and Money’, in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation (link is external), ed. M. King, New York, Oxford University Press, 26-06-2012, DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195399301-0120
- ‘Mercanti-banchieri fiorentini tra Londra e Bruges nel XV secolo’, in «Mercatura è arte».Uomini d’affari toscani in Europa e nel Mediterraneo tardomedievale (link is external), ed L. Tanzini-S. Tognetti (Rome, 2012), pp. 11-44
- ‘Circolazione di notizie e andamento dei mercati nel basso Medioevo’, in Fama e publica vox nel Medioevo (link is external), Proceedings of the International Conference (Ascoli Piceno, 4-5 Dec. 2009), ed. I. Lori Sanfilippo-A. Rigon (Rome, 2011), pp. 119-46
- ‘Un frammento inedito di un libro di conti di Domenico Villani e compagni di Londra, 1422-24’, Storia economica, 13 (2010), n. 3, pp. 375-409
- ‘Trade with northern Europe’, in Francesco di Marco Datini. The Man the Merchant (link is external), ed. G. Nigro (Florence, 2010), pp. 395-417
- ‘"Perché era mal ghovernata". I mercanti-banchieri fiorentini del Rinascimento e la chiusura delle loro compagnie, tra fallimenti imprenditoriali e conflitti fra i soci’, in Imprenditorialità e sviluppo economico: il caso italiano (link is external) (secc. XIII-XX), Proceedings of the Conference of the Società Italiana degli Storici dell’Economia (Milan, 14-15 Nov. 2008), ed. F. Amatori-A. Colli (Milan, 2009), pp. 1329-41 of the cd-rom edition
- ‘Banchieri appaltatori e aumento della pressione fiscale nello Stato pontificio tra Quattro e Cinquecento’, in La fiscalità nell’Economia europea. Secoli XIII-XVIII (link is external), Atti della XXXIX Settimana di Studi dell’Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” (Prato 22-26 April 2007), ed. S. Cavaciocchi (Florence, 2008), pp. 863-70
- ‘When did Antwerp replace Bruges as the commercial and financial centre of north-western Europe? The evidence of the Borromei ledger for 1438’ (with J.L. Bolton), The Economic History Review (link is external), 61, n.2 (2008), pp. 360-79
- ‘Banchieri senesi nel primo Cinquecento tra Roma, Lione e la penisola iberica’, in L’ultimo secolo della Repubblica di Siena. Politica e istituzioni, economia e società (link is external), ed. M. Ascheri-F. Nevola (Siena, 2007), pp. 385-409
- ‘Mercanti-banchieri e appalti pontifici nella prima metà del Cinquecento’, in Offices, écrit et papauté (link is external) (XIIIe-XVIIe siècle), ed. A. Jamme-O. Poncet (Rome, 2007), pp. 517-43
- ‘Le tecniche bancarie’, in Il Rinascimento italiano e l’Europa, vol. 4, Commercio e cultura mercantile (link is external), ed. F. Franceschi-R.A. Goldthwaite-R.C. Mueller (Vicenza, 2007), pp. 543-66
- ‘S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini a Roma. Due secoli di finanziamenti tra pontefici e granduchi, prelati e mercatanti’, Quellen und Forschungen aus den Italienischen Archiven un Bibliotheken (link is external), 86 (2006), pp. 294-320
- ‘The Borromei Bank Research Project’ (with J.L. Bolton), in Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro (link is external), ed. by L. Armstrong-I. Elbl (Leiden, 2006), pp. 460-90
- ‘Drappi di seta e tele di lino tra Firenze e Norimberga nella prima metà del Cinquecento’, Archivio Storico Italiano (link is external), CLIX (2001), pp. 359-94
- ‘Der Handel mit Seidenstoffen und Leinengeweben zwischen Florenz und Nürnberg in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts’, Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg (link is external), 86 (1999), pp. 81-113
- ‘Politica matrimoniale e matrimoni politici nella Firenze di Lorenzo de’ Medici. Uno studio del Ms. Notarile Antecosimiano 14099’, Archivio Storico Italiano (link is external), CLV (1997), pp. 347-98
Web publications
- The ledger of Filippo Borromei and co. of Bruges (link is external), 1438, edited and calendared with J.L. Bolton
Appearances in the media
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Guido Moltedo, Cabotaggi in banca e libri gialli (link is external) IL Magazine (link is external) (Oct. 2012)
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Historians Discover Medieval Banking Records Hidden Under Coats of Arms (link is external), Science Daily (link is external) (24 July 2012)
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John Cabot’s celebrated ship dabbled in smuggling (link is external), The National Post (link is external), Windsor Star (link is external) (8 July 2012)
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'A shoe box of discovery', The American (link is external) (July, 2012)
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Discovery of a £16 Advance Sheds Light on John Cabot’s Adventures (link is external), New York Times (link is external) (19 June 2012)
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Italiener finanzierten Entdeckung Nordamerikas (link is external), Der Spiegel (link is external) (6 May 2012)
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Did an English expedition BEAT Columbus to the Americas? Record of bank loan to sailor who found North America in 1497 hints that others may have been there first (link is external), Daily Mail (link is external) (4 May 2012)
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'Columbus may not have been first to America (link is external)', Discovery News (link is external) (3 May 2012)
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'Cabot may have known of new world before Columbus, newly discovered document suggests', Vancouver Sun (link is external), The Province (link is external), National Post (link is external), Edmonton Journal (link is external) (29 April 2012)
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'Italian bankers paid for Cabot voyage (link is external)', The Post (28 April 2012)
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'Italian bank backed Cabot voyage to Newfoundland, new research reveals', Montreal Gazette (link is external), Times Colonist (link is external), Ottawa Citizen (link is external), Vancouver Sun (link is external), Calgary Herald (link is external) (20 Oct. 2010)