Abstract

ABSTRACT Mercantile migrants in Venice drew upon family ties and ruler’s obligations to negotiate their rights and privileges. Drawing from a source base of immigrants’ petitions to the Venetian Collegio and the Cinque Savi alla Mercanzia, this paper reveals that foreign merchants also exploited the ties of trust and reciprocity that traditionally bound ruler and subject in medieval and early modern supplication. However, immigrants confronted limits to reciprocity when it came to the authorities’ moral or civic concerns in the regulation of space.

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