Provenance and Possession

Provenance and PossessionA thought provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance Italy. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals, and even enslaved people. Many historians hold that this imperial "opening up" of the world transformed the