The Antwerp joyous entry of 1549. The Florentine-Genoese conflict as a window on the role of a trading nation in political cultural transfers

Christophe Schellekens

doi:10.18352/incontri.10136

The Antwerp joyous entry of 1549. The Florentine-Genoese conflict as a window on the role of a trading nation in political cultural transfers

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Christophe Schellekens Via Boccaccio 121 50133 Firenze (Italy)

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https://doi.org/10.18352/incontri.10136

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Florentine trading nation, Antwerp, Joyous Entry, cultural transfer, precedence

Abstract

La felice entrata ad Anversa del 1549. Il conflitto fiorentino-genovese come una finestra sul ruolo di una nazione commerciale in transfer culturali politici

In quest’articolo sono esaminati vari documenti a proposito delle iniziative che la nazione italiana ad Anversa e il governo fiorentino presero per ottenere la precedenza sulla nazione genovese nel corteggio della felice entrata di Carlo V ad Anversa, nel 1549. Un’analisi della corrispondenza fiorentina vuole offrire una ricostruzione empirica dell’impegno dimostrato dalla comunità fiorentina a questo riguardo. Benché la rete comunicativa sia di carattere transnazionale e la corrispondenza si basi su esempi del passato avvenuti in diversi contesti culturali, l’analisi svela alcuni aspetti che comprometterebbero un’interpretazione in termini di transfer o di traslazione, poiché lo scambio di informazioni ha luogo principalmente all’interno della comunità fiorentina.

Author Biography

Christophe Schellekens, Via Boccaccio 121 50133 Firenze (Italy)

Christophe Schellekens is a PhD-researcher in history at the European University Institute. His dissertation studies the Florentine and Lucchese merchant communities in sixteenth-century Antwerp, with special attention to their relation with their home regions. Before starting his PhD, he worked at the research group for Early Modern history at the University of Leuven. He holds degrees in history and in Medieval and Renaissance studies from the University of Antwerp and the University of Leuven.

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2015-12-18

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Schellekens, C. (2015) “The Antwerp joyous entry of 1549. The Florentine-Genoese conflict as a window on the role of a trading nation in political cultural transfers”, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 30(2), pp. 15–28. doi: 10.18352/incontri.10136.

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Vol. 30 No. 2 (2015): Cultural exchanges between Italy and the Low Countries during the early modern period

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