Great public success for the exhibition Commodities and Environments: Florence and the Indo Atlantic Worlds, 1500-1800, hosted by the Biblioteca Riccardiana and closed on February 21, 2025.
Twenty-five books and manuscripts, belonging to the large collection of the Biblioteca Riccardiana, illustrated the wealth of knowledge and economic and cultural exchanges of Florence since the sixteenth century, taking visitors on a journey around the world, through goods and their natural environments, but also offering them a moment of reflection on the environmental and cultural impact of the production, cultivation, extraction and consumption of goods
and on the processes of colonization and exploitation of these environments by some European countries, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The exhibition was born from the collaboration between the ERC CAPASIA Project “The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism” (2022-2027) based at the European University Institute in Fiesole (EUI) and the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence.