Francesco Guidi Bruscoli

Associate Professor | University of Florence-Department of Economics and Management
Field of study: Economic history

Francesco Guidi Bruscoli is associate professor of economic history at the University of Florence and an honorary fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He is also Académico Correspondente Estrangeiro of the Academia Portuguesa da História and Membro associado of the Academia de Marinha, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He specialises in the history of trade and banking in the Renaissance period, and has been involved in several international research projects (in particular in the UK, France and Portugal). His publications include a volume on Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007) and a book on Bartolomeo Marchionni, «homem de grossa fazenda» (ca. 1450-1530). Un mercante fiorentino a Lisbona e l’impero portoghese (Florence: Olschki, 2014), which was awarded the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian prize in the History of Europe section.