Las galeras mercantiles de Florencia en el Reino de Granada en el siglo XV

Abstract

Florence developped a statal galleys system in the XVth century. The present article analyzes its role in the Kingdom of Granada, in the Florentine Sea Consuls’ orders as well as in the privet documentation. Thus, we study aspects as different as the insertion of the Nasrid ports in the Florentine navigation lines, freight charges envisaged and the news about the mercantile practice. What emerges is a hitherto unknown image about the role of the Tuscan galleys in the external commercial organization of the Granadan territory.