Catia Brilli  is a research fellow at the University of Milan, Italy, and honorary researcher at the University of Seville, Spain. She also works in collaboration with the Bocconi University of Milan.Manuel Herrero Sánchez is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and the principal investigator of the research project on the polycentric model of shared sovereignty (sixteenth–eighteenth century) and an alternative route in constructing the modern state.

• 1. The business relations, identities and political resources of Italian merchants in the early-modern Spanish monarchy: some introductory remarks 2. Tuscan merchants in Andalusia: a historiographical debate 3. A Genoese merchant and banker in the Kingdom of Naples: Ottavio Serra and his business network in the Spanish polycentric system, c.1590–1620 4. Looking through the mirrors: materiality and intimacy at Domenico Grillo’s mansion in Baroque Madrid 5. Small but powerful: networking strategies and the trade business of Habsburg-Italian merchants in Cadiz in the second half of the eighteenth century 6. Coping with Iberian monopolies: Genoese trade networks and formal institutions in Spain and Portugal during the second half of the eighteenth century

Catia Brilli  is a research fellow at the University of Milan, Italy, and honorary researcher at the University of Seville, Spain. She also works in collaboration with the Bocconi University of Milan.Manuel Herrero Sánchez is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and the principal investigator of the research project on the polycentric model of shared sovereignty (sixteenth–eighteenth century) and an alternative route in constructing the modern state.

• 1. The business relations, identities and political resources of Italian merchants in the early-modern Spanish monarchy: some introductory remarks 2. Tuscan merchants in Andalusia: a historiographical debate 3. A Genoese merchant and banker in the Kingdom of Naples: Ottavio Serra and his business network in the Spanish polycentric system, c.1590–1620 4. Looking through the mirrors: materiality and intimacy at Domenico Grillo’s mansion in Baroque Madrid 5. Small but powerful: networking strategies and the trade business of Habsburg-Italian merchants in Cadiz in the second half of the eighteenth century 6. Coping with Iberian monopolies: Genoese trade networks and formal institutions in Spain and Portugal during the second half of the eighteenth century

Catia Brilli  is a research fellow at the University of Milan, Italy, and honorary researcher at the University of Seville, Spain. She also works in collaboration with the Bocconi University of Milan.Manuel Herrero Sánchez is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and the principal investigator of the research project on the polycentric model of shared sovereignty (sixteenth–eighteenth century) and an alternative route in constructing the modern state.

• 1. The business relations, identities and political resources of Italian merchants in the early-modern Spanish monarchy: some introductory remarks 2. Tuscan merchants in Andalusia: a historiographical debate 3. A Genoese merchant and banker in the Kingdom of Naples: Ottavio Serra and his business network in the Spanish polycentric system, c.1590–1620 4. Looking through the mirrors: materiality and intimacy at Domenico Grillo’s mansion in Baroque Madrid 5. Small but powerful: networking strategies and the trade business of Habsburg-Italian merchants in Cadiz in the second half of the eighteenth century 6. Coping with Iberian monopolies: Genoese trade networks and formal institutions in Spain and Portugal during the second half of the eighteenth century