„Nichts weiter als ein großes Warenlager, welches unter dem holländischen steht“. Zur Bedeutung Amsterdams für italienische Händler aus Frankfurt im 18. Jahrhundert

The article investigates the economic links between the Italian trading companies Brentano, Guaita and Bolongaro, which migrated to Frankfurt on Main before 1700, and the Dutch trading centre Amsterdam. In the eighteenth century they operated branches in both cities and purchased mainly Italian goods and colonial goods from Amsterdam. However, the Amsterdam branches soon grew beyond the role of pure purchasing offices for goods for the German market and became involved in the Amsterdam stacking business and intra-European maritime trade. As a result, the representatives in Amsterdam succeeded... Mehr ...