2015/

1-2

ISBN 978-88-8368-118-9

Pag. 15-

39

, DOI 10.17426/FBBSHMIHUZ

Keywords: Poverty; Italian economy; 18th-19th centuries; standard of living; before Modern Growth

<p style="text-align: justify">This paper aims at contributing to the understanding of pre-modern economic growth through a reconstruction of poverty levels and trends in Italy. Our findings have shown that a positive period from about 1700 until 1760 wa