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In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy - Softcover

Baker, Nicholas Scott

 
9781108826945: In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy

Synopsis

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking explores how a new concept of the future emerged in Renaissance Italy - and its consequences.

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About the Author

Nicholas Scott Baker is Associate Professor of History at Macquarie University. He is the author of The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550 (2013), several articles and book chapters, and co-editor of two volumes of essays on Italian Renaissance society and culture.

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