Autore
Andreozzi, Daniele

Titolo
"La segretezza degli affari suoi". Commerci, regole e reati a Trieste nella seconda metà del Settecento
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 143 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 467 - Pagina finale: 496

During the second half of the eighteenth century, in Trieste, port of the Habsburgon the Adriatic sea, the strengthening of the dominion of the empress Maria Teresa wascoupled by a more timely and continuous presence of the state. Such presence becamea reality also through the issuing of a copious series of norms that aimed at regulatingmany aspects of the economic system of the city and at controlling the strategies of taxevasion and fraud adopted by the merchants established in the city. This took placewithin the frame of an acute conflict that had the appropriation of the profits derivingfrom commerce as its goal. A conflict in which the principal actors were Vienna'scourt, the Habsburg's bureaucracy, economic interests located throughout variousareas of the Empire, the protagonists of the system of duties and of the commercialtraffic and the merchants of Trieste. Therefore, around the norms and within the thickand complex relations between them and the fraud, during the daily confrontations,the interests were affirmed, fraud and regulations and their mechanisms and outcomeswere being defined and the narration of «public happiness» was being constructed.



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