ABSTRACT
The early modern period experienced a gradual shift of economic activity away from the Mediterranean region, especially Italy, towards the Atlantic seaboard countries, particularly to the United Provinces in the seventeenth century and Great Britain in the eighteenth century. The number of cloths produced in Venice, 1520–1710
1520 |
3,639 |
1620 |
23,000 |
1530 |
6,065 |
1630 |
13,275 |
1540 |
7,000 |
1640 |
11,719 |
1550 |
11,558 |
1650 |
10,082 |
1560 |
17,569 |
1660 |
7,861 |
1570 |
9,492 |
1670 |
5,226 |
1580 |
21,387 |
1680 |
3,820 |
1590 |
20,607 |
1690 |
2,009 |
1600 |
24,719 |
1700 |
2,033 |
1610 |
17,129 |
1710 |
2,057 |