Credit for the poor. Trust, regulation and charity in the Roman Monte di Pietà

Skambraks, Tanja

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DOI:	https://doi.org/10.7410/1456
URL:	https://rime.cnr.it/index.php/rime/article/view/55...
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-626289
Document Type:	Book chapter
Year of publication:	2021
Book title:	Il credito. Fiducia, solidarità, cittadinanza (secc. XIV-XIX) = The credit. Trust, solidarity and citizenship (14th -19th centuries)
The title of a journal, publication series:	RiMe - Rivista dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Europa Mediterranea
Volume:	8
Issue number:	2 = scpecial issue
Page range:	137-158
Publisher:	Avallone, Paola ; Salvemini, Raffaella
Place of publication:	Torino
Publishing house:	ISEM-CNR
ISBN:	978-8897317654
ISSN:	2035-794X
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Humanities > Mittelalterliche Geschichte (Kehnel 2005-)
Pre-existing license:	Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Subject:	940 History of Europe
Keywords (English):	small-scale credit , trust , Monti di Pietà , Rome , piccolo credit , Fiducia , Roma
Abstract:	The scope of this article is twofold: firstly, it explores the application of “trust” as a heuristic category. Secondly, it examines how the Roman Monte di Pietà was established as a reliable and trustworthy Christian institution. Applying different approaches due to Ogilvie, Luhmann, etc. the paper shows the Monte as a trustworthy institution of urban elites using professional personnel as well as a strict accounting system. This institutionalisation process was accompanied by a discourse led by Franciscan authors, thematizing a Christian economic ethics, and marginalising Jewish moneylenders. Thus, trust in the institution was not only based on its successful ad-ministration but also on religious aspects.
Translation of the abstract:	Questo articolo discute la categoria euristica di “fiducia” e la applica al Monte di Pietà di Roma in quanto istituzione affidabile e degna di fiducia. Rifacendosi a metodologie di Ogilvie, Luhmann, etc. l’articolo presenta la fondazione del Monte come progetto di elite urbane che facevano uso di personale professionale e di un severo sistema di endicontazione. Questo processo di istituzionalizzazione procedeva in parallelo ad un dibattito, portato avanti da autori Francescani, che mirava a sviluppare un’e tica economica cristiana e a marginalizzare i prestasoldi ebrei. Dunque, la fiducia goduta da questa istituzione era connessa a motivi religiosi non meno che alla sua amministrazione efficiente. (Italian)