Research Publications

Academic publications related to Genoese merchant networks, Atlantic trade, and the GEMENE-ST database project.

Book Chapters

Teasdale, S. (2025). "Commercial Networks, Colonialism, and Acculturation: The Genoese Lomellini Family in Lisbon, Madeira, and the Canary Islands, 1420s–1550s", in R. Zaugg & S. Marzagalli (eds), Atlantic Italies: Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa, and the Mediterranean (15th–19th Centuries), Rome, Viella, 93–112.

Taviani, C. (2025). "The Genoese Merchant Network from the Court of Mantua to North and West Africa (1450s–1510s)", in R. Zaugg & S. Marzagalli (eds), Atlantic Italies: Economic Entanglements between the Americas, Africa, and the Mediterranean (15th–19th Centuries), Rome, Viella, 113–134.

Taviani, C. (2025). "Le indie dei genovesi. Reti di mercanti e investimenti tra la penisola italiana, il Medio Atlantico e l'Oceano Indiano (1498–1520)", in P. Calcagno & L. Lo Basso (eds), «Un'altra Genova fanno». I Liguri negli spazi globali tra medioevo ed età moderna, Rome, Viella, 41–57.

Taviani, C. (2024). "The Genoese Merchant Network and Gold (ca. 1450–1530)", in T. B. F. Cummins (ed), Global Gold Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 187–207.

Teasdale, S. (2025). "Genoese commercial networks in Tabarka and environs before 1543", in E. Ottonello Lomellini & L. Piccinno (eds), Tabarca e i domini genovesi d'Oltremare: equilibri politici e dinamiche economiche tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna, Genova, Società ligure di storia patria, 11–65. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15838290

Taviani, C. (2020). "In the Shadow of Other Empires: Genoese Merchant Networks and Their Conflicts across the Atlantic Ocean, ca. 1450–1530", in L. Sicking & A. Wijffels (eds), Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000–1800, Leiden, Brill–Nijhoff, 217–236.

Journal Articles

Taviani, C. (2024). "The Maona. A Study on Institutional Migration of Economic Organizational Forms (13th–16th centuries)", The Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 13, 25, 1–34.

Taviani, C. (2024). "Le reti dei mercanti e delle fazioni genovesi: commerci globali, guerre d'Italia e conflittualità politica (1480–1530)", Mediterranea–ricerche storiche, 60, 27–54.

Mesa, A. (2025). "Notarial Archives and Social Network Analysis: Ottaviano Fregoso and the Genoese Consulate in Seville", European History Quarterly, 55(4), 529–561. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251373022

Mesa, A. (2025). "The Mechanics of Finance: Private Genoese Enterprises and Market Functions in Seville (1460–1530)", Financial History Review, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565025000046

Mesa, A. (2023). "Motors of Production or Hoarders of Land: The Conflicts between the Genoese and Castilian Authorities Regarding Land Ownership and Sugar Production in the Canary Islands (1489–1516)", International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 13(6). https://doi.org/10.30845/ijhss.v13n6p

Spina, S. (2025). "Schiavitù e invented archives. Intelligenza Artificiale generativa nella costruzione del "Database on the Slave Trade."" Aidainformazioni, 1-2, 2025. https://doi.org/10.57574/59655493XX