Forestieri a Firenze : il caso della manodopera orvietana alla fine del Trecento

At the end of the fourteenth century, Florence attracted a hundred low-cost workers from Orvieto and other cities in Umbria with the aim of strengthening the workforce of the town. The migration of these workers takes place when Florence assumes political control of the major institutional posts of Orvieto, exercising a sort of crypto-lordship, readable through the diplomatic correspondence between the two cities. An ephemeral experience, characterized by the poor integration of migrants and destined to be exhausted in a few years. [Publisher's text]