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In Fortune's Theater - Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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In Fortune's Theater - Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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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, the futurologists of the pre-modern world,
understood and experienced their own risk taking and that of
others. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study
demonstrates that while the Renaissance did not create the modern
sense of time, it constructed the foundations on which it could
develop. The new conceptions of the past and the future that
developed in the Renaissance provided the pattern for the later
construction a single narrative beginning in classical antiquity
stretching to the now. This book thus makes an important
contribution toward laying bare the historical contingency of a
sense of time that continues to structure our world in profound
ways.
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