The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492–1750
DOI: 10.1017/9781316389034.011
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The Impact of New World Plants, 1500–1800: The Americas in Italy

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“…Thus, for example, in central Italy the predominance of a sharecropping system would appear to have made the adoption of maize more problematic than in northern Italy (Mocarelli, Vaquero Piñeiro 2018). Moreover, equally relevant in order to explain the ways in which the diffusion of maize took place seems to be the cultural dimension, that is to say the attitude of peasants with regard to this new crop (Gentilcore 2017). This will be illustrated with two different examples.…”
Section: Luca Mocarellimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, for example, in central Italy the predominance of a sharecropping system would appear to have made the adoption of maize more problematic than in northern Italy (Mocarelli, Vaquero Piñeiro 2018). Moreover, equally relevant in order to explain the ways in which the diffusion of maize took place seems to be the cultural dimension, that is to say the attitude of peasants with regard to this new crop (Gentilcore 2017). This will be illustrated with two different examples.…”
Section: Luca Mocarellimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…De hecho, los libros de botánica editados en la primera mitad del siglo XVI incluyen ya la nueva planta. El naturalista Ulisse Aldrovandi la describe en detalle en 1551 y algunos años más tarde, en 1564, lo hará también Agostino Gallo en su famosa obra, Los diez días de la agricultura y los placeres de la villa (Galli, 2016;Gentilcore, 2017). Tras esta fase inicial, en la que el maíz se aclimató en los jardines privados, donde se reunían las especies vegetales llegadas de lejanas y misteriosas tierras (Ambrosoli, 1992), la planta pasó de su condición de exótica rareza a la de cereal sembrado por razones alimenticias.…”
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