Credit and Citizenship: the Sauli, Genoese Bankers in Rome in 15th-16th Century

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Andrea Fara

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The aim of this study is to identify what were the strategies that the Sauli of Genoa – one of the several merchant-banking families who arrived in Rome between late fifteenth and early sixteenth century – implemented to gain visibility, prestige and bona fama to the court of the Pope, to serve as lenders of the Pope and the Church, to profitably expand their investment horizons, to extend their political, economic and social influence, to assert their “citizenship” in the so-called “international republic of money and credit”.

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Fara, Andrea. 2016. “Credit and Citizenship: The Sauli, Genoese Bankers in Rome in 15th-16th Century”. Reti Medievali Journal 17 (1), 71-104. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/488.
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