Historical information about Amalfi

Historical information about Amalfi

Historical information about Amalfi

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It regulated the relations between ship's master and crew and among sailors and merchants. The same legend of Flavio Gioia, who probably lived in the early fourteenth century, confirmed to the Amalfi boast of having first perfected the compass for the benefit of navigation and provided material of the first medieval nautical charts. Dominating the market for spices, perfumes, silk and precious carpets, in the tenth century coined the money of gold, tan with gold and silver, which were in circulation in the empire greek, Africa and the principalities Lombards. These coins were similar to what Muslim to show that trade relations were developed with the Arabs more than with the Byzantines.

The remarkable development of Amalfi was largely due to the independence it enjoyed, but the scarcity of land and the lack of support for military weakness Byzantine unsafe this independence.In 1039 Guaimario V, Prince of Salerno, took possession of the Duchy of Amalfi and even retold the power to Duke II Mansone the blind man who had been deprived by his brother John II, settled in fact the domain of the city of Salerno. Under pressure from Salerno, the Amalfi governed by Sergio IV turned to Robert Guiscard in 1073. Amalfi Salerno capitulated but had to leave their city occupied by the Normans and regain the peace at the cost of freedom.

The "terror mundi showed magnanimity towards Amalfi, by granting them a degree of autonomy. After the death of Norman prince in 1085, Amalfi tried several times to shake off the yoke Norman. Amalfi in 1135 suffered a horrible sack by Pisani 'traitors' to the rescue against the tyranny called Norman.In 1343 a terrible earthquake, described by Petrarca, hit the coast, and most up area was destroyed (probably with it also the Ducal Palace, mentioned in a document as "palatium amalphitanum), the fortifications were submerged, the shipyards, warehouses and marine equipment.

Five years later, the famous plague of 1348, described by Boccaccio, completed the destruction of men. Amalfi and all coast towns which had been fortified and populated places beautiful, rich in sumptuous palaces, decorated with frescoes, marble columns, fountains, is poised to become small countries that lack the wealth that came from the sea returned to the traditional economy fisheries, local crafts and agriculture. Only in the late nineteenth century the emergence of tourism growth gave back to a city that is the economic epicenter of the entire coast that from Amalfi takes its name.

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