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One City, Two Economic Areas: Wheat and Olive Oil Trade in Bergamo between Venice and Milan

In: Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century

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  • Fabrizio Costantini

    (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Abstract

Close to the Alps, but far from both the capital city (Venice) and navigable rivers, the territory of Bergamo suffered from a chronic lack of cereals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. This chapter shows that smuggling played a key role in provisioning Bergamo: protected by specific laws and privileges (such as the possibility of crossing borders without any form of control), cereals smugglers supplied Bergamo with almost 25–50% of the quantity that the city needed. Bergamo also obtained privileged rights in the procurement of olive oil, given the importance of local wool production. Bergamo, one of the westernmost cities of the Venetian mainland, was granted permissions to purchase oil in Tuscany and Genoa, but this privilege was also used to conceal smuggling practices.

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  • Fabrizio Costantini, 2021. "One City, Two Economic Areas: Wheat and Olive Oil Trade in Bergamo between Venice and Milan," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Luca Clerici (ed.), Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century, chapter 0, pages 69-102, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-42064-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42064-2_3
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