From spices to coffee. The Saporetti family in Ravenna and the spread of “new tastes” in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Andrea Casadio
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/188
Language Italian Pages 25 P. 296-320 File size 266 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2025-188002
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This case study is concerned with the timing and reconstruction of the spread of new exotic commodities (mainly coffee) and of public resorts devoted to their consumption in Ravenna, the capital of a province (Legazione) of the papal State, in the decades between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its first member to open a coffee house in Ravenna was Massimiliano Saporetti in 1684: a decidedly early date, but one coinciding with the earliest archival records of the marketing and consumption of coffee in the city. The continued success of the enterprise was due to his two sons, Michele and Sebastiano. Michele opened his own coffee house in 1708, while Sebastiano worked in the old one side by side with his father and inherited the firm in 1730. Both of them acquired a comfortable economic condition which ensured their rise to a fully “bourgeois” status.
Keywords: Coffee, Coffeehouse, Bakery, Exotic commodities, Ravenna, Saporetti.
Andrea Casadio, Dalle spezie al caffè: i Saporetti, una famiglia ravennate all’esordio dei “nuovi gusti” fra sei e settecento in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 188/2025, pp 296-320, DOI: 10.3280/SS2025-188002