Un mercato esclusivo. Gabelle, pedaggi ed egemonia politicanella Torino tardomedievale

This essay explores the dynamics underlying the purchase and circulation of incomes from excise duties in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Turin. By analysing various sources (city council proceedings, cadastres, civic accountancy ledgers, notarial and court records), the paper aims at reconstructing the creation of a group that throughout a century controlled multiple incomes (public and privatised). The development of a market restricted to a few select families, that set its rules, drew a line between this group and the rest of the citizenry and represented at the same time an attempt to protect this exchange circuit from the interference of the lords of Savoy.