The making of the modern corporation : the Casa di San Giorgio and its legacy (1446-1720)

Title
  1. The making of the modern corporation : the Casa di San Giorgio and its legacy (1446-1720) / Carlo Taviani.
Published by
  1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Taviani, Carlo

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Description
  1. xiv, 247 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. "This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407-1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers we now ascribe to banks and states, accruing financial characteristics and fiscal, political, and territorial powers. As one of the earliest central banks, it ruled territories and local populations for almost a century. It controlled strategic Genoese possessions near and far, including the island of Corsica, the city of Famagusta (in Cyprus), and trading posts in Crimea, the Black Sea, the Lunigiana in northern Tuscany, and various towns in Liguria. In the early sixteenth century, in his Florentine Histories (Book VIII, Chapter 29), Niccolò Machiavelli was the first to analyze the relationship between the Casa di San Giorgio's financial and territorial powers, declaring its possession of territories as the basis of its ascendancy. Later, the founders of some of the earliest corporations, including the Dutch East India Company (1602), the Bank of England (1694), and John Law's Mississippi Company (1720) in France, referenced the model of the Casa di San Giorgio"--
Series statement
  1. Routledge research in early modern history
Uniform title
  1. Routledge research in early modern history
Subject
  1. Banco di San Giorgio (Genoa, Italy) > History
  2. Banco di San Giorgio (Genoa, Italy)
  3. 1339-1789
  4. Financial institutions > Genoa > History
  5. Institutions financières > Gênes > Histoire
  6. Diplomatic relations
  7. Financial institutions
  8. Genoa (Italy) > History > 1339-1528
  9. Genoa (Italy) > History > 1528-1789
  10. Genoa (Italy) > Foreign relations
  11. Gênes (Italie) > Histoire > 1339-1528
  12. Gênes (Italie) > Histoire > 1528-1789
  13. Gênes (Italie) > Relations extérieures
  14. Italy > Genoa
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.