Le locande della solidarietà (Genova, XVIII secolo)

• Main Author: Cinzia Bonato
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Diacronie 2015-03-01
• Series: Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea
• Subjects: assistance; inns; networks; solidarity; strategies; assistenza; locande; reti; solidarietà; strategie
• Online Access: http://www.studistorici.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/03_BONATO.pdf

So far the historiography has looked at the inns as dangerous places where migrants, tramps and deviants used to sleep, or as hotels where to accommodate tourists, visitors or traders. Actually they were also aggregation places for problematic people and families both Geneses and from other states, in which the coexistence allowed to forge links and to develop solidarity strategies that extended and linked also outside them. In these inns the nocturnal city, active and full of illegal activities or dormant and requiring of an alcove, settled with the diurnal one, which was legal and productive. Through the analysis of all the information relating to the inns and their customers contained in the Criminal Cause of the Genoa hospital, Pammatone, we can get to know about some accommodation facilities and discover practices and survival strategies implemented by the population to evade resorting to institutional care.