Nicholas Scott Baker

In Fortune's Theater

Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy explores the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures in Italian society and demonstrates important shifts in attitudes towards time, decision making about the future and risk-taking during the Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781108826945
• ISBN-10: 1108826946
• Artikelnr.: 68271421

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Scott Baker is Associate Professor of History at Macquarie University. He is the author of The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480¿1550 (2013), several articles and book chapters, and co-editor of two volumes of essays on Italian Renaissance society and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Histories of the Future
1. Experts in Futurity
2. The Future in Play
3. Trust in the Future
4. The Mercantile Vocabulary of Futurity in the Sixteenth Century
5. The Renaissance Afterlife of Boethius's Allegory of Fortuna
6. The Emerging of a New Allegory in Mercantile Culture
7. The Shifting Image of Fortuna
8. The Separation of Fortuna and Providence
Conclusion: Time and the Renaissance.