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Managing Abundance: Victualling Offices and Cereals Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Ferrara

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

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  • Giulio Ongaro

    (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

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This chapter aims to identify the features of the victualling system in eighteenth-century Ferrara. This purpose will be pursued by examining major interventions by public institutions, especially in the management of cereals stocks, even though local agricultural output was considerable. The importance of the interplay between merchants, producers, and public institutions will be highlighted. Regulation of the cereals market, via both the victualling office and the control of import-export flows, was affected by, and itself affected, economic players’ behaviour. Ferrara’s leading merchant families interacted with the victualling office, selling wheat in times of dearth and purchasing it when the office decided to renew its stocks; furthermore, the same families invested in the victualling office via the credit market.

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  • Giulio Ongaro, 2021. "Managing Abundance: Victualling Offices and Cereals Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Ferrara," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Luca Clerici (ed.), Italian Victualling Systems in the Early Modern Age, 16th to 18th Century, chapter 0, pages 145-173, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-42064-2_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42064-2_5
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