Carlo Taviani earned his bachelor’s degree from the University La Sapienza in Rome and received his PhD from the University of Perugia. He has held fellowships at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (2005-2006) and the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome (2006 and 2015-2016), where he was also a research fellow (2019-21); I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance Studies (2009-10), where he was also a research associate (2017-19); the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC (2012); the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trent (2011-14) and the University of Zurich (2021-22). He was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, the MacMillan Center at Yale (2013), a visiting lecturer at the University of Cape Town (2015), and visiting scholar at the University of Nagoya (2019). He taught at the University of Cape Town (2015) and the University of Bologna (2020-2022). His PhD thesis focused on revolts and political conflicts in Renaissance Genoa. He has also studied political exiles and their cultural entanglements in Renaissance Italy. More recently, he has been working on economic topics such as the history of the Casa di San Giorgio in Genoa—an institution that managed the public debt—as a model for later business corporations such as the Dutch East India Company and the Mississippi Company. His work on this topic has led him to an interest in elaborating a methodology of institutional migration. Thanks to his stay in Cape Town, he has moved into studying the history of Africa. His current research project is titled Genoese Merchant Networks in Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean (ca. 1450–1530). It collects data to study the Genoese traders and their networks between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. It also looks at  their involvement in the early transatlantic slave trade.

 

 

Libri

 

 

The Making of the Business Corporation. The Casa di San Giorgio and its Legacy, New York e Londra, Routledge 2022.

 

Lotte di parte. Rivolte di popolo e conflitti di fazione nelle guerre d'Italia (1494-1531), Roma, Viella, 2021.

 

Superba discordia. Guerra rivolta e pacificazione nella Genova di primo Cinquecento, Roma, Viella, 2008.

 

Libertà e dominio. Il sistema politico genovese (secoli XV-XVIII), Matthias Schnettger e Carlo Taviani (a cura di), Roma, Deutsches Historisches Institut, 2011.

 

 

 

Saggi e contributi in volume

 

 

“Trading and Investing during Regime Changes in Genoa”, in Alexander Lee e Brian Jeffrey Maxon (a cura di), The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559, New York e Londra, Routledge 2022, pp. 248-263.

  

“In the Shadow of Other Empires: Genoese Merchant Networks and Their Conflicts across the Atlantic Ocean, ca. 1450–1530”, in Louis Sicking e Alain Wijffels (a cura di), Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800, Brill–Nijhoff, Leiden, 2020, pp. 217–236.

 

“Companies, Commerce, and Credit, in Carrie Benes”, in Carrie Benes (a cura di), A Companion to Medieval Genoa, Brill’s Companions to European History, 2018, pp. 427-447.

 

“Il Banco genovese di San Giorgio prima corporation?”, in Andrea Giardina (a cura di), Storia Mondiale dell’Italia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2018, pp. 357-361.

 

“Alle radici della finanza moderna? Machiavelli e il modello del Banco di San Giorgio di Genova”, in Gabriele Pedullà (a cura di), Niccolò Machiavelli, L’Illuminista, 49, 2018, pp. 391-424.

 

“The Genoese Casa di San Giorgio as a micro-economic and territorial nodal system”, in Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (a cura di), The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600, 2017, pp. 177-192.

 

“A Privatized State: Discourses on the Bank of San Giorgio (1446-1562)”, in Daniel Bornstein, Laura Gaffuri e Brian Jeffrey Maxson (a cura di), Languages of Power in Italy (1300-1600), Turnhout, Brepols, 2017, pp. 49-62.

 

“La Casa de San Giorgio de Génova y los orígenes de las corporations  europeas  en la Edad Moderna”, in Manuel Herrero Sanchez (a cura di), Repúblicas y republicanismo en la Europa moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII), Madrid, FCE, 2016, pp. 507-528.

 

“An Ancient Scheme. The Mississippi Company, Machiavelli and the Casa di San Giorgio (1407-1720)”, in Political Power and Social Theory, 29 (2015), pp. 239-256.

 

“La paga floreni. Utilisations politiques d’un impôt sur les dividendes à Gênes (fin du XV siècle)”, in Katia Béguin (a cura di), Ressources publiques et construction étatique en Europe. XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle, Parigi, Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France, 2015, pp. 101-109.

 

“Hunting Witches in Fiemme Valley (1504-1506)”, in Marco Bellabarba, Hannes Obermaier, e Hitomi Sato (a cura di), Communities and Conflicts in the Alps from the Late Middle Ages to Early Modernity, Annali dell’Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento. Contributi, 2013, pp. 119-126.

 

“Peace and Revolt . Oath-taking Rituals to Form Unions between and against the Factions in Early Sixteenth - Century Italy”, in Samuel Cohn Jr., Marcello Fantoni, Franco Franceschi e Fabrizio Ricciardelli (a cura di), Symbols and Rituals in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013, pp. 119-136.

 

“Ipotesi sulla transizione di un paradigma finanziario. John Law e la Casa di San Giorgio di Genova (secoli XVI-XVIII)”, in Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Quaderni, 89 (2013), pp. 53-77.

 

“Confraternities, Citizenship and Factionalism: Genoa in the Early Sixteenth Century”, in Nicholas Terpstra (a cura di), Brotherhood and boundaries, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013, pp. 42-53.

 

“Confratelli, cives, uomini di parte: Genova a inizio Cinquecento”, in Stefania Pastore, Adriano Prosperi e Nicholas Terpstra (a cura di), Brotherhood and Boundaries. Fraternità e barriere, Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2011, pp. 493- 509.

 

“L’esilio dei Fregoso di Genova tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento”, in Fabio Di Giannatale (a cura di), Escludere per governare. L’esilio politico fra Medioevo e Risorgimento, Le Monnier, Milano, 2011, pp. 63-78.

 

“«Hanno levato l’amore dal comune e postolo a San Giorgio». L’immagine del comune e della Casa di San Giorgio di Genova (XV- XVI sec.)”, in Libertà e dominio. Il sistema politico genovese (secoli XVXVIII), Carlo Taviani e Matthias Schnettger (a cura di), Roma, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, 2011, pp. 281-304.

 

“Testimonianze e memorie di una rivolta: Genova 1506-1507”, in Gian Mario Anselmi e Angela De Benedictis (a cura di), Città in Guerra. Esperienze e riflessioni nel primo ‘500. Bologna nelle Guerre d’Italia, Minerva Edizioni, Bologna, 2008, pp. 179-196.

 

“La rivolta di Genova alla signoria di Luigi XII”, in Sacha Zala, Andreas  Willi  e  Marco Vencato (a cura di), Ordine e trasgressione, Viella, Roma 2008, pp. 41-55.

 

“Strategie di parte e politica del comune a Genova nei primi anni della signoria di Luigi XII (1499-1507)”, in Atti e memorie della Società Savonese di Storia Patria, XLIV (2008), pp. 165-178

 

“Rivolte rurali e conflittualità urbana. La città di Trento durante il «Bauernkrieg» del 1525”, in Cecilia Nubola and Andreas Wurgler (a cura di), Forme della comunicazione politica in Europa nei secoli XV-XVIII. Suppliche, gravamina, lettere, Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento. Contributi/Beiträge, 14, Il Mulino, Bologna 2004, pp. 235-261

 

“I gravami trentini del 1525”, in Annali dell’Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, XXIX, (2003), pp. 709-736.