DENISE BEZZINA

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The aim of this study is to reconsider the residential choices and strategies in property acquisition of the Genoese elites gathered in alberghi during the 15th century on the basis of fiscal sources and in particular of the Possessionum register of 1414. A detailed analysis of the sources and the collected data enable to examine such choices...

The essay provides a brief introduction to the monographic issue entitled Choix résidentiels et contrôle de la propriété urbaine dans l'Italie du bas Moyen Âge by summarising the aims and range of issues addressed in the four essays that it brings together.

The essay considers the will, dated 1338, of Violante, widow of Francesco Ultramarino, scion of a Genoese aristocratic family. Violante had married into a family which had recently come to prominence and which would shortly afterwards create the albergo Centurione (here partially reconstructed in its earliest phase). The document, as well as...