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Luxury, Consumption and Value: The Circuits of Alienable and Inalienable Goods in the Visconti and Sforza Court (Milan, 14th-16th Centuries)
| The aim of this paper is to investigate both consumption choices and logics of pricing of luxury goods in the Visconti and Sforza court in Milan. Using a large variety of inventories belonging to several male and female members of the court (Gian Galeazzo and Valentina Visconti, Anastasia, Drusiana, Ippolita, Bona, Galeazzo Maria, Bianca Maria and Ludovico Sforza), the analysis will focus especially on priceless and inestimable things as they are considered by these sources. By antithesis, those invaluable items will give us a precious access to the understanding of the social and cultural meaning of conspicuous consumption in the Milanese court, as well as its impact on the construction of the two separated, but complementary circuits of alienable and inalienable luxury goods.
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