The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and its Legacy (1446-1720)

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Carlo Taviani

The Making of the Modern Corporation

The Casa di San Giorgio and its Legacy (1446-1720)

Carlo Taviani

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English

Routledge
29 January 2024

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Economic history

Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History

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.

By: Carlo Taviani
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032198934
ISBN 10: 1032198931
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. Debating the Origins of Business Corporations / Part I: Finance and Organization of the Casa Di San Giorgio (1407–1518) / Chapter 1. Origins and Foundation of San Giorgio / Chapter 2. Financial and Fiscal Features of San Giorgio / Chapter 3: San Giorgio’s Political Features / Part II: The Casa di San Giorgio’s Territories (1407–1518) / Chapter 4. Origins of San Giorgio’s Territorial Power / Chapter 5. On the Black Sea / Chapter 6. In Liguria and Corsica / Part III: Genoa’s Two Seats of Power: The Commune and San Giorgio (1453–66) / Chapter 7. Contra San Giorgio / Chapter 8. Machiavelli and San Giorgio / Part IV: The Casa di San Giorgio’s Model (1518–1791) / Chapter 9. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) and San Giorgio / Chapter 10. The Bank of England and San Giorgio / Chapter 11. John Law and the Mississippi Company / Conclusion

Carlo Taviani is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has been a research fellow at Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom and at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trent. He has held fellowships at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici, I Tatti (the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and the MacMillan Center at Yale and a visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town. He taught at the Università degli Studi di Teramo, the Università degli Studi di Trento, and the University of Cape Town. He is currently teaching at the University of Bologna.