Markets and Governance. Commercial Practices and Urban Spaces in a “Middle” Princely City (15th-17th Centuries)
Journal title STORIA URBANA
Author/s Matteo Provasi
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/180
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 13-27 File size 252 KB
DOI 10.3280/SU2025-180002
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The development of commercial spaces in Ferrara during the Este domination was closely linked to the economy of private consumption and to the growing control of the princely authorities over economic dynamics. Starting from this awareness, the ar-ticle aims to investigate, through the interweaving of complementary normative sources, the location and regulation of food shops and stalls in the main city squares. All this within a medium-term time frame, from the urban transformations of Ercole I d’Este to the devolution, with a few selected incursions into the subsequent develop-ments of the papal age.
Keywords: Urban Markets, Este Power, Shops and Stalls, Urban Transformations, Governance of Public Space.
Matteo Provasi, Il mercato e la politica. Pratiche commerciali e spazi urbani in una città principesca “mediana” (secc. XV-XVII) in "STORIA URBANA " 180/2025, pp 13-27, DOI: 10.3280/SU2025-180002