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 [ANG] The Development of Florentine Silk Industry, Sergio Tognetti
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The development of the Florentine silk industry: a positive response to the crisis of the fourteenth century
Sergio Tognetti
Źródło:Reti Medievali. Rivista
Fragment: "In the period when Tuscany (together with Italy and the rest of Europe) was affected by plague, famine and all the other factors we have already mentioned, Florentine primacy over the whole region was an incontrovertible fact. However, in the early fourteenth century Tuscany was still prevalently polycentric, not only from an economic but also from a political, artistic and cultural point of view. Florence therefore took advantage of the ‘crisis’, or rather of the incapacity of the weaker and less fl exible economies of the other cities to respond effectively to the diffi culties of the second half of the century, to increase the gap between it and its rivals and ultimately to politically subject almost all of them. Naturally, all of this could not have happened if Florence had not in turn taken steps to adapt its economy to the rapid change in the situation and in international demand. One of the most macroscopic aspects of the ‘crisis’ was in fact the increase in the cost of labour, an inevitable consequence of the drop in population and therefore of available labour, and at the same time the rise in the per capita wealth of the affl uent classes, an effect of the concentration of wealth in the hands of a limited number of individuals. If we equal out the money wage levels of masons, manual building workers and farm labourers in the period 1326–1348 at 100, it can be noted that the money wages in the period 1394–1430 were respectively 253, 299 and 307. The available data for textile workers and artisans are not, unfortunately, suffi cient to provide similar statistics; however the wages of the so-called Ciompi (wool workers) cannot have been all that different from what building workers and farm labourers earned; likewise the most skilled wool artisans must have earned similar wages to building masons."
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