Solidarietà e politica a Firenze nel Quattrocento. Qualche osservazione sul Monte delle Doti

Abstract

Social solidarity in 15th-century Florence also rested on the activities of the Dowry Fund, a financial institution founded to supportmarriage policies and encourage social mobility. The characteristics of the Dowry Fund have been extensively analysed from a demographic, anthropological and gender history standpoint, with few surveys on their political implications. The article therefore aims at proposing some reflections on the relevance of the Dowry Fund for the Florentine government in the pre-Medicean age and in the decades of the hegemony of theMedici’s first generations.