ABSTRACT
This chapter will mainly focus on the export of Florentine luxury textiles to Central Europe in the first half of the sixteenth century. The German area was not the main market for silks woven in Florence, which found rich buyers in many areas, from Western Europe to the Levant. But from the fourteenth century Nuremberg had begun to gain importance as a local and international market, partly because of its position at the crossroads of major European land routes. Towards the end of the fifteenth century the town reached the peak of its success, and at that point Florentine merchants (among others) increased their presence in that market, while at the same time starting to look towards Poland.
