This article focuses on the itinerant print trade that actively involved the Alpine Tesini pedlars for more than three centuries (between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries) and that profoundly influenced the cultural, social, and economic history of their home valley. The case study of the pedlars from the Tesino valley, in what is now the Trentino region of Northern Italy, offers a privileged perspective for analysing three interrelated broader questions: the dynamics and effects of mobility in Ancien Régime Alpine societies; the spread of cheap print in pre-modern Europe; and the economic system underlying this large-scale trade. Through the analysis of a corpus of previously overlooked notarial sources, this article aims to unravel the complex financial and credit mechanisms that enabled the Tesini pedlars to succeed, but which in many cases were also the cause of their downfall.

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欧洲的流动性、印刷品和贸易：特西尼小贩的案例（17-19 世纪）


本文重点关注阿尔卑斯特西尼小贩在三个多世纪（十七世纪至十九世纪之间）积极参与的流动印刷贸易，并深刻影响了他们家乡山谷的文化、社会和经济历史。对来自特西诺山谷（现在的意大利北部特伦蒂诺地区）的小贩的案例研究，为分析三个相互关联的更广泛的问题提供了一个独特的视角：旧制度阿尔卑斯社会中流动性的动态和影响；廉价印刷品在前现代欧洲的传播；以及支撑这种大规模贸易的经济体系。通过对先前被忽视的公证来源的语料库进行分析，本文旨在揭示复杂的金融和信贷机制，这些机制使特西尼商贩得以成功，但在许多情况下也是他们垮台的原因。