Ottoman Merchants and Venetian Notaries in the Early Modern Period

The aim of this paper is to study the presence of Ottoman merchants in Venice in the Modern Age. The Ottoman shipping partnership as well as the Venetian commenda were based on the mudarebe (classical Islamic shipping partnership) and several examples of this kind of partnerships may be found even between Christians and Muslims. Notarial deeds were above all proxies and often give information on merchants, their number and even their private life. Some of them were agents but there were also family companies and Ottoman grandees who were involved in international trade. Communities of merchants both in Istanbul and in Venice were also sometimes created. Last but not least, these sources contain also some examples of insurance made by Muslims to protect their goods. In general in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Ottoman merchants who traded in Venice were not alone, but they could refer to a real commercial network. Ancient historiographical theories say that in the Modern Age Ottoman Muslims were not interested in international trade and that they left it completely in Christian and Jewish hands, however documents tell us a completely different story, a story of contacts, exchanges, and even confidence and friendship

Protagonisti minori. Amministrazione locale e giustizia nella periferia di Cipro a met\ue0 XVI secolo

Baili, civitani e banieri: queste erano le figure, espressione della societ\ue0 locale cipriota, impegnate nel governo di realt\ue0 secondarie nell\u2019isola, dove la Repubblica non inviava dei propri rappresentanti patrizi. Prendendo come riferimento la contrata Carpathi, situata nella parte nord-occidentale dell\u2019isola e sottoposta all\u2019autorit\ue0 del capitano di Famagosta, questo contributo intende analizzare le modalit\ue0 con cui questi protagonisti minori erano eletti, le loro responsabilit\ue0 nei confronti della comunit\ue0 locale e dei referenti veneziani nell\u2019isola e, infine, il loro ruolo all\u2019interno dell\u2019amministrazione della giustizia nella periferia del regno