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The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World (Hardcover)
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The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World (Hardcover)
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In the twilight of the Renaissance, the grand duke of Tuscany-a
scion of the fabled Medici family of bankers-invited foreign
merchants, artisans, and ship captains to settle in his port city
of Livorno. The town quickly became one of the most bustling port
cities in the Mediterranean, presenting a rich tableau of
officials, merchants, mariners, and slaves. Nobody could have
predicted in 1600 that their activities would contribute a chapter
in the history of free trade. Yet by the late seventeenth century,
the grand duke's invitation had evolved into a general program of
hospitality towards foreign visitors, the liberal treatment of
goods, and a model for the elimination of customs duties. Livorno
was the earliest and most successful example of a free port in
Europe. The story of Livorno shows the seeds of liberalism
emerging, not from the studies of philosophers such as Adam Smith,
but out of the nexus between commerce, politics, and identity in
the early modern Mediterranean.
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