Del Guadalquivir al Nilo: el testamento de Andrea de Razi (1477) y la comunidad veneciana de Sevilla a finales del siglo XV

Among the Italian merchant communities settled in the Crown of Castile Venetiansare the least known. It seems clear that in the last decades of the 15thcenturythey were only a few acting from Seville. To approach this group, scholars have mainlystudied the information held in Castilian archives –notarial deeds, royal and municipaldocuments–which are limited both in number and chronology. The discoveryof the testament of Andrea de Razi (1477), which we publish and study for the firsttime, sheds new light on the reality of the Venetian Nation in the Iberian Peninsulaand allows to enlarge our knowledge of the mercantile network and the commercialstrategies developed. At the same time, it reveals more solid connections of Sevillewith the Eastern Mediterranean, related to the exports of oil (Venice), and antimonysulphate (Alexandria).