Traghetti in Venice
Introduction
Research Question: "Who owns and who operates the Venitian traghetti?"
Objectives:
- Analyze who the owners of the ferries are?
- Are there prevalent families owning most of the businesses? If so who are they and what are their social and political position in the city
- Is the ownership stable throughout the years? (Comparing with Sommarioni data?) (Comparing with present data?)
- Are the owners of Traghetti building centers (squero) the same as owners of traghetti businesses?
- What other businesses Traghetti owners have and are they in some way related to the Traghetti?
- Analyze who exploits the ferries?
- Is it a family specific business or open to anyone willing to do such work?
- Do the families exploiting the traghetti stay the same? (Compare with present data / Sommarioni?)
- Traghetti workers need a licence to practice, which comes from several guilds (mariegole). Can we find a trace of them in our datasets?
- Spatial analysis
- Are there specific families owning or exploiting in specific parts of the city? If so, why?
- Why are traghetti where they are ? (Usually on the main canal, but sometimes not)
- Which zones are most profitable for traghetti owners (based on rental prices?)
Project Timeline & Milestones
| Week | Task | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 14.10 - 20.10 | Define the research question | |
| Autumn Vacation | --------------------- | |
| 28.10 - 03.11 | find and read litterature | |
| 04.11 - 10.11 | continue reading litterature + extracting and classifing owner data | |
| 11.11 - 17.11 | Midterm Presentation + Visualisation tool for historical maps | |
| 18.11 - 24.11 | catastici and sommarioni alignment + entity owned distribution + heatmap rental prices analysis | |
| 25.11 - 01.12 | analysis from the catastici and sommarioni aligment (ownership change, ...) + dig into specific family / entities (Ospedale / Filosi) + Spatial analysis of traghetti (historical maps) + start writing the wiki (Methodology) | |
| 02.12 - 08.12 | Compare results of families in time + Analyse results of squero and traghetti owner families + Analyse tenets of traghetti (only a certain number of families?) + Continue to write the wiki (finish introduction) | |
| 09.12 - 15.12 | Finish writing wiki + Compare the results to present day data (should it be available) | |
| 16.12 - 22.12 | Formating and last minute changes or analysis |
Methodology
1. Data Extraction
The function field in the 1740_Catastici dataset was used to filter out the ferry data. We focused on different kinds of ferries in the Venice area, specifically the Italian words traghetto and gondola.
| Keyword in function | Count | Denotes |
|---|---|---|
| traghetto | 168 | |
| gondola | ??? |
2. Family Data Classification
The owner data are extracted
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Zanelli, G. (2011). Gondole e traghetti. In: Matematica e cultura 2011. Matematica e cultura. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1854-9_5
Huffman, K. L. (2024). A View of Venice : Portrait of a Renaissance City. (K. L. Huffman, Ed.; 1st ed.). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478023807
Robin Quillien, « Apprentissages et voies d’accès au métier de barcarolo à Venise à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) », Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Italie et Méditerranée modernes et contemporaines [En ligne], 131-2 | 2019, mis en ligne le 30 décembre 2019, consulté le 13 novembre 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/mefrim/6651 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/mefrim.6651