Fausto Fioriti
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Postdoctoral researcher at Bocconi University within the project MOLDisTory – Merchants-Bankers and the Organization of Long-Distance Trade (P.I. Professor Giuseppe Berlingieri). He earned his PhD in Historical Sciences at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale). He has been a research fellow at the University of Genoa, at the University of Verona, and Chargé de recherche at the École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (ESSEC Business School) in Cergy. He is a member of the project La Monarquía Hispánica, la circulación de los metales preciosos y la globalización financiera en el Mediterráneo (1568–1798) [HISFIMED], Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Department of Early Modern and Contemporary History.
His research interests concern the early modern and economic history of the Republic of Genoa (1528–1797), with particular attention to the role of the patriciate in international financial and commercial markets. He has published articles on silver trade, on Genoese investments in the Venetian public debt, and on the Armenian merchant community in seventeenth-century Genoa.