<i>I commerci adriatici e mediterranei di Ancona nel XV secolo</i>
Journal: Hiperboreea Journal of History
Year: 2021

Ancona, located two hundred kilometers south of Venice on the western coast of the Adriatic Sea, is one of Italy’s main ports, especially for the international traffic of vehicles and passengers. Its fortunes began in the Middle Ages, when it became a shipping port for western goods headed east and a gateway for eastern products to the west. Although some scholars hesitate to call it a “maritime republic” because of its subjection to the pope, Ancona was a fierce economic rival of Venice for cen