Naples and Amsterdam : relations, negotiations and trades in the Eighteenth Century

Gabriella Desideri

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-228-1

Naples and Amsterdam : relations, negotiations and trades in the Eighteenth Century

Authors

Gabriella Desideri

University of Foggia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7416-4161

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-228-1

Keywords:

Naples (Kingdom of); Dutch Republic, commercial treaty, economy, Eighteenth century

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Clio. Essays in History, Archaeology and Art History

Pages: 222

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-30046

Abstract: The volume focuses on the political and economic relations between the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily and the Dutch Republic in Eighteenth century. The starting point is the commercial treaty signed by the two States in 1753. Thanks to various Neapolitan and Dutch sources, the study reconstructs the political and commercial interests that underpinned the agreement, highlighting the importance of the relationships with Dutch Republic in Charles of Bourbon’s “politica dei trattati”. Through the analysis of the relations between a modest Mediterranean State and a mercantilist Power of the time (albeit in decline), the volume explores the Neapolitan “strategy” to find its own space amidst the clashes between the major commercial Powers of the period. By exanimating the impact of commercial treaty on the Dutch trades in Southern Italy, the book provides an initial approach to studying economic exchanges between the Dutch Republic and Naples. This lays the groundwork for a broader understanding of the relationships between Southern Italy and Northern Europe in the Eighteenth century, a topic on which much remains to be explored.

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Author Biography

Gabriella Desideri, University of Foggia

Gabriella Desideri is a research fellow at University of Foggia. She obtained her PhD at the University of Parma in philological-literary, historical-philosophical and artistic studies, in co-tutorship with the Aix-Marseille Université. Her research interests include the political-diplomatic relations and trade networks between the Mediterranean and Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period, diplomatic agents and economic mediators in international relations, political information and diplomatic archives in the Early Modern Period.