Fairs, trade and markets: a custom that has been built, regulated and established over the centuries.
On Thursday 13 June, at 5.00 pm, Marco Moroni’s volume “The fair system of the middle Adriatic between the Middle Ages and the modern age” will be presented in the MAN Marche auditorium, in collaboration with the Deputation of Homeland History for the Marche and with the patronage of the State Archives of Ancona, of the Marche Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, of Laboratorio Culturale Ancona and of the associations Reti Culturali ODV-Ancona and Vista Mare.
An analysis of the commercial and economic choices that led, after the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century, to the relaunch of the markets through the free fairs.
The process of formation of a more integrated organization of trade is then retraced, which in the middle Adriatic began to take shape in the first half of the fifteenth century, when an agreed calendar was defined among the merchants and when the functional links between the various fairs were strengthened, both economic and organizational nature.
In the sixteenth century, this system included Fermo, Recanati, Pesaro, Rimini, Lanciano and Foligno, in turn connected with the gatherings of Fano, Ascoli, Norcia, L’Aquila, Viterbo and Farfa.
A great mercantile season that led to the transformations that in the seventeenth century led to the progressive decline and then to the crisis of the trade fair events that arose in the central regions of the Adriatic; those same transformations favored the emergence of Senigallia, which in the eighteenth century became the only great fair on the Adriatic.
Free entry to the auditorium for the presentation, access to the exhibition itinerary with an ordinary Museum ticket.
Limited places, booking is recommended on 071-202602.
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