In Fortune's Theater

ISBN-13: 9781108826945 / Miękka / 2023 / 266 str.

Nicholas Scott Baker

Opis

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking explores how a new concept of the future emerged in Renaissance Italy - and its consequences.

Recenzje

'An impressive account of conceptual change in early modern Italy. By close analysis of evidence ranging from books on gambling and insurance to merchant letters and humanist writings, Nicholas Scott Baker recalibrates concepts of time, fortune, and the future to describe an unpredictable and risky new world.' Alison Brown, author of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy

Spis treści

Introduction: Histories of the Future; 1. Experts in Futurity; 2. The Future in Play; 3. Trust in the Future; 4. The Mercantile Vocabulary of Futurity in the Sixteenth Century; 5. The Renaissance Afterlife of Boethius's Allegory of Fortuna; 6. The Emerging of a New Allegory in Mercantile Culture; 7. The Shifting Image of Fortuna; 8. The Separation of Fortuna and Providence; Conclusion: Time and the Renaissance.