Resumen de Between Medina del Campo and Rome: A Journey of Money in the Sixteenth Century

Isabella Iannuzzi

• During the early modern age, shaping the mechanisms and guarantees of financial and commercial transactions was the basis for the expansion of commercial markets: the beginning of market gloalization was due not only to the discovery of a new continent and new trade routes, but also to the manner of being in contact with these new territories and of including them economically and financially in a perspective of political development.