Journal Articles by Andrea Zappia
Mobilità e pratiche di negoziazione dei mercanti ebrei nei circuiti fieristici dello Stato della Chiesa Il caso di Rieti (sec. XVII-XVIII)
Mélanges dell'École française de Rome - MEFRIM, 2025
Starting in the mid-seventeenth century, as authority over Jewish mobility became centralized in ... more Starting in the mid-seventeenth century, as authority over Jewish mobility became centralized in the Holy Office, temporary permits to attend fairs in the Papal States turned into political tools for selectively regulating access to space. This paper analyzes the case of Rieti and its annual fairs as negotiated political spaces, where Jewish merchants, through documentary practices and relational strategies, secured margins of presence in an urban context from which they were formally excluded. Petitions submitted to the Holy Office reveal a systematic use of regulations to suspend the obligation to reside in the ghetto. In this light, mercantile mobility appears not merely as a tolerated exception, but as the outcome of a structured interaction between legal norms, economic interests, and negotiation skills, exposing the ambiguities of papal control and the potential for bottom-up influence on the concrete configuration of local political space.
Mobilità e stanzialità nello spazio portuale tra Mediterraneo e Atlantico (secoli XVII-XIX) Giuli... more Mobilità e stanzialità nello spazio portuale tra Mediterraneo e Atlantico (secoli XVII-XIX) Giulia Bonazza, Andrea Zappia 15 Mobilità e stanzialità nello spazio portuale tra Mediterraneo e Atlantico (secoli XVII-XIX). Introduzione Dominique Rogers 23 Les femmes «blanches» actrices de la vie économique des ports de Saint-Domingue à la fin du XVIII e siècle: une question à redécouvrir
Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni, 2025
For centuries, in March and September, an important fair was held around the Abbey
of Santa Maria... more For centuries, in March and September, an important fair was held around the Abbey
of Santa Maria di Farfa (Rieti). Beginning in the early sixteenth century, a true market
town developed around the abbey, with its shops rented out by the Benedictine monks to merchants who came to Farfa from across the peninsula and beyond. This article aims to highlight how the presence of Jews at the Farfa fair dates back to its origins and accompanied its development during the sixteenth century; whether and how this stable Jewish presence at the Farfa fair changed during the second half of the century, in a context of increasing coercive policies imposed by the papal authorities on this religious minority; and how Jewish participation in the fair gradually disappeared during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Riforma e Movimenti Religiosi, 2025
The accession of Paul IV to the papal throne in 1555 marked the beginning of a period of consider... more The accession of Paul IV to the papal throne in 1555 marked the beginning of a period of considerable intransigence toward Jewish communities, one that profoundly reshaped the geography of Jewish settlements within the Papal States. Among the practices that allowed Jews to maintain a continuous connection with the territories from which they had been expelled, a prominent role was played by their participation in the fair activities that structured the economic and social calendar of nearly all urban centres in the Papal States. The article aims to investigate the ways in which, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, local communities in the Papal States engaged with the numerous Jewish merchants, whose presence—particularly during fairs—was characterized by intense and recurrent mobility. Special attention is devoted to the tangible dynamics of this temporary coexistence, which unfolded under the vigilant, yet pragmatic, oversight of the Roman Inquisition.
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Journal Articles by Andrea Zappia
of Santa Maria di Farfa (Rieti). Beginning in the early sixteenth century, a true market
town developed around the abbey, with its shops rented out by the Benedictine monks to merchants who came to Farfa from across the peninsula and beyond. This article aims to highlight how the presence of Jews at the Farfa fair dates back to its origins and accompanied its development during the sixteenth century; whether and how this stable Jewish presence at the Farfa fair changed during the second half of the century, in a context of increasing coercive policies imposed by the papal authorities on this religious minority; and how Jewish participation in the fair gradually disappeared during the second half of the eighteenth century.