2017/

1-2

ISBN 978-88-8368-164-6

Pag. 7-

34

, DOI 10.17426/58228

Keywords: Renaissance; Venice, Fraterna; Navigation; Companies

The article aims to understand the role of the familial society in the Venetian economy of the Renaissance period. This institution will be analysed thanks to two case-studies from the late Quattrocento Venice: The Foscaris