Some observations on four series of Tuscan corn prices 1520–1630

Abstract

In his address to the International History Congress in Stockholm, 1960, Professor Earl J. Hamilton¹ regretted the lack of a history of Italian prices, a matter which was all the more surprising since there was known to be copious material—often systematically recorded—giving series of prices, particularly from the sixteenth century and later, in Italian archives. During the last thirty years numerous papers and publications based on this material have appeared which go some way towards filling the gap.