Armando Sapori

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Armando Sapori (born July 1, 1892 in Siena , † March 6, 1976 in Milan ) was an Italian historian with a focus on economic and social history of the Middle Ages , and a politician. He was Senator of the Republic of Italy from 1948 to 1953 and from 1956 a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . Along with Raymond de Roover , Gino Luzzatto and Federigo Melis , he is considered to be the one who most strongly promoted the idea of ​​the commercial revolution of the late Middle Ages .

Sapori received his doctorate in law from the University of Siena in 1919 . In 1921 he became an employee of the Florence State Archives, but with an appointment to the University of Ferrara , where he taught economic history , he embarked on an academic career. At the same time he took up his activity in Milan at the Luigi Bocconi University of Economics and taught in Florence from 1935 to 1962 . In Milan he was rector of the university from 1952 to 1967 .

1946 to 1951 Sapori was consigliere comunale in Florence on the list of independents of the Communist Party , from 1948 to 1953 he sat in the Senate as a member of the Gruppo Democratico di Sinistra .

Together with the works of Raymond de Roover and Federigo Melis, his work changed the view of the late medieval world of money, banking, credit, and trade, and above all of the far-reaching ideas on which these processes, referred to as the commercial revolution of the Middle Ages were based. Extensive work on the companies of Frescobaldi, Peruzzi and Bardi, del Bene and Alberti contributed to this.

Publications (selection)

  • La crisi delle compagnie mercantili dei Bardi e dei Peruzzi , Florence 1926.
  • Una compagnia di Calimala a Firenze nel Trecento , Florence 1932.
  • I libri di commercio dei Peruzzi , Milan 1934.
  • Mercatores , Milan 1941.
  • I libri della ragione bancaria dei Gianfigliazzi , Milan 1946.
  • Studi di storia economica medievale , 3 vols., Florence 1940, 2nd edition 1946.
  • La compagnia dei Frescobaldi in Inghilterra , Florence 1946.
  • Mondo finito , Florence 1946 (autobiography).
  • Les marchands italien au moyen-age: conferences et bibliographie , Armand Colin, Paris 1952; Ital. Il mercante italiano nel Medioevo. Quattro conferenze tenute all'École pratique des hautes études , Milan 1983.
  • Cambiamenti di mentalità del grande operatore economico tra la seconda metà del Trecento ei primi del Quattrocento , in: Studi di Storia economica (1967), pp. 457-485
  • The Italian Merchant in the Middle Ages, 1970 and Studi di storia economica , Florence 1955.

literature

  • Sergio Tognetti: Armando Sapori , website of the Storia di Firenze .
  • Alberto Torcini (Ed.): Ricordo di Armando Sapori. Scritti su un uomo di pace , Biblioteca "Armando Sapori", Florence 1986.

Remarks

  1. ^ Federigo Melis: Aspetti della vita economica medievale (Studi nell'Archivio Datini di Prato) , Siena 1962.
  2. ^ Armando Sapori: La compagnia dei Frescobaldi in Inghilterra , Olschki, Florence 1947.
  3. ↑ Armando Sapori: La crisi delle compagnie mercantili dei Bardi e dei Peruzzi , Florence 1926.
  4. ^ Armando Sapori: Una compagnia di Calimala ai primi del trecento , Olschki, Florence 1932.
  5. ^ Armando Sapori: Gli Alberti del Giudice di Firenze , Florence 1949. He also edited I Libri degli Alberti del Giudice , Florence in 1952

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personal data
SURNAME Sapori, Armando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Siena
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1976
Place of death Milan