La Banca en Granada hasta 1515: notas para su estudio
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Garzón Pareja, ManuelEditorial
Universidad de Granada
Materia
Granada Historia Siglo XVI Economía Bancos
Date
1975Referencia bibliográfica
Garzón Pareja, M. La Banca en Granada hasta 1515: notas para su estudio. Cuadernos de Estudios Medievales y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas, 2-3: 349-353 (1974-75). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30101]
Résumé
Dr. Felipe Ruiz Martin is the first person who has studied
seriously the history of the bank in Spain. In his work "El Banco
de Espafia", the author analyzes the bank of Granada beginning
with the permission given to the Centurione brothers in 1518.
These brothers were of those Genoeses who are everywhere. It is
not strange that these Genoeses were important people of the bang
of Granada if we remember that there was a house of their fellow
countrymen during the Nasri 'epoch in Granada.
The fact is not clear —we are talking about the importance of
the Genoeses in Christian times—, because we know that Catholic
Kings transformed that house into a prison for the city. Either they
lost importance or they were not successful in their business in
Granada. We have already pointed out how it was forbidden to
those Genoeses to live in Granada. The slippery Genoeses came
once again to live in the town after some years and they occupied
an important area in h; in spite of the opposition of those who
hated them for being competitors in the silk and wool trade.
I demonstrated in this article that three bankers —either
private or public moneychangers (this is not very important now),
and who precisely were not Genoese—, are registered from 1492
till 1515, three years before the Centurione, and of this date we
have even the documents of obligaton and guarantee which were
issued by Fernando Lépez and his boundsmen. This is published
in this article.
It is very interesting to know that the bankin g activity of
Granada was very important because of its industry of silk and
wool. There was, also a place called "los cambios" (exchanges) as
we said before, so that these bankers were not alone.