–plant firms with their use of bills-of-exchange; the Bautier-Verlinden model on the ‘industrialization of 14th century Italy’; and …

(landslides and floods) and consequent disasters in the Consortium of Mountain Municipalities of Valtellina di Tirano, in Northern … Italy. A geo-referenced database, collecting information till 2008, was designed with the aim of using available data of … emergency management purposes. This database and related statistics about landslides and floods are shown, and a brief overview …

insurance demand in Italy, with particular reference to the economic activities? Extreme precipitation events over most of the … century, as global mean surface temperature increases. If we look to Italy, examination of the precipitation time series shows … a sensitive and highly significant decrease in the total number of precipitation events in Italy, with a trend of events …

Venice is worldwide known as one of the most intriguing places, hosting an average of 15 million tourists per year …. This paper describes the causes of the economical inefficiency of the freight transportation system in Venice, and analyses …

based on the price that woollen-cloth producers in both the Low Countries and Italy had to pay in that luxury re …, more so than in Italy, despite the continued predominance of Mediterranean markets. For woollens, the Italian industries …

property, were first developed a century before in Venice. This article explores these precursors to the more commonplace …

In early modern Venice, a wide range of people offered care, goods and services for the health of the city’s numerous … inhabitants. This study utilises Venice’s civic death registers to assess when and why the sick and dying accessed medical care …

historical record of seven international financial centers –Florence, Venice, Genoa, Antwerp, Amsterdam, London and New Yorku …

are the re-shaping of urban areas, with particular regard to art cities. This phenomenon is particularly evident in Venice …

, via new transcontinental trading routes from Venice through Germany to the Brabant Fairs, based on a tripod of English … decline of the Venetian cloth industry in the 17th century have focused on Venice’s own ‘internal faults’, this paper offers … major share of Ottoman and Persian markets, at the direct expense of Venice: through a combination of diplomacy and superior …