Nei banchi pubblici napoletani.
Repertorio dei titolari dei conti con maggiore movimentazione tra il 1734 e il 1804.

by Daniela Ciccolella and Luigi De Matteo
Cnr edizioni, Roma 2021
pp. 304

ISBN paper version 978-88-8080-468-0
ISBN digital version 978-88-8080-467-3
DOI: 10.48217/MNDNCL02 (https://doi.org/10.48217/MNDNCL02)

The digital edition is in free Open Access.

In the two centuries and more of their existence, the Neapolitan public banks played a central role in the economic and financial system of the Kingdom of Naples and its capital, Naples, where ‘there was no shopkeeper or wealthy house that did not largely exercise its income and profit trade through one of the banks’.

The widespread recourse of merchants to the credit instruments of the public banks – credit instruments and policies, on which the reason for the transactions carried out was affixed – makes the documentation now preserved in the Historical Archives of the Banco di Napoli a valuable source for the history of business and trade in the modern Mezzogiorno. A source capable of intercepting the company, its organisation, its financial arrangements, its practices, the legal forms it took, its national and international networks, and thus making up, at least in part, for the lack of company archives.

The Repertorio dei titolari dei conti con maggiore movimentazione, conceived to facilitate the identification of the accounts of shopkeepers at the seven public banks active in Naples in the Bourbon eighteenth century, is a useful tool for the most diverse areas of historical research. It collects the names of the approximately 9,000 customers – shopkeepers, nobles, officials, ecclesiastics, professionals, etc. – whose accounts were most dynamic in the 18th century. – whose accounts were most dynamic in the years, one in ten, between 1734 and 1804; for more than 3,000 customers it also provides the affogliamenti, the first empirical description of the degree of movement of accounts and the key to accessing the major books and, from there, the copy journals. The transactions carried out by the customers of the Neapolitan public banks are thus more easily opened up to scholars’ investigation.

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