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Online: http://www.storiamediterranea.it/public/md1_dir/r845.pdf.
This study analyses the expenses for luxury goods of a prominent family of the Milanese aristocracy from 1805 to 1813. First of all, it identifies the products considered luxury goods in the city of Milan at the beginning of the 19th century. Secondly, it describes the types of luxury goods in demand and quantifies the actual incidence of the expenses for these goods on the family’s annual budget. Finally, the article focuses on each item – food, clothes, family mansion, stables, personnel, sacred vestments and vessels, works of art – detailing the luxury items, the real value of some products or services, the commercial circuit of the luxury goods, and the merchants who supplied them to the capital of the Kingdom of Italy during the Napoleonic age.
