In Fortune's Theater
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Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy
Nicholas Scott Baker
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This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan - Nicholas Scott Baker examines how merchants and gamblers, the futurologists of the pre-modern world, understood and experienced their own risk taking and that of others. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study demonstrates that while the Renaissance did not create the modern sense of time, it constructed the foundations on which it could develop. The new conceptions of the past and the future that developed in the Renaissance provided the pattern for the later construction a single narrative beginning in classical antiquity stretching to the now. This book thus makes an important contribution toward laying bare the historical contingency of a sense of time that continues to structure our world in profound ways.
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Select In Fortune’s Theater
In Fortune’s Theaterpp i-ii
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Select In Fortune’s Theater - Title page
In Fortune’s Theater - Title pagepp iii-iii
Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy
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Copyright pagepp iv-iv
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Contentspp v-v
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Select Figures
Figurespp vi-viii
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Select Preface
Prefacepp ix-ix
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Select Acknowledgments
Acknowledgmentspp x-xii
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Select Note on the Text
Note on the Textpp xiii-xiv
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Select Introduction
Introductionpp 1-17
Histories of the Future
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Select 1 - Experts in Futurity
1 - Experts in Futuritypp 18-41
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Select 2 - The Future in Play
2 - The Future in Playpp 42-69
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Select 3 - Trust in the Future
3 - Trust in the Futurepp 70-88
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Select 4 - The Mercantile Vocabulary of Futurity in Sixteenth-Century Italy
4 - The Mercantile Vocabulary of Futurity in Sixteenth-Century Italypp 89-111
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Select 5 - The Renaissance Afterlife of Boethius’s Moral Allegory of <span class='italic'>Fortuna</span>
5 - The Renaissance Afterlife of Boethius’s Moral Allegory of Fortunapp 112-130
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Select 6 - The Emerging of a New Allegory in Mercantile Culture
6 - The Emerging of a New Allegory in Mercantile Culturepp 131-151
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Select 7 - The Shifting Image of <span class='italic'>Fortuna</span>
7 - The Shifting Image of Fortunapp 152-182
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Select 8 - The Separation of <span class='italic'>Fortuna</span> and Providence
8 - The Separation of Fortuna and Providencepp 183-221
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Select Conclusion
Conclusionpp 222-227
Time and the Renaissance
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Select Bibliography
Bibliographypp 228-246
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Select Index
Indexpp 247-252
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