Francesca Trivellato is professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is the author of The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period.

"This book is a gem. Francesca Trivellato has produced a multifaceted exploration of the complex relation between evolving Christian ideas about Jews and the development of modern commercial society."---Arthur Wilson, EH.net --- "Trivellato’s study makes an important contribution to both Jewish Studies and the wider history of economic thought, the bridging of which is an express purpose of the work. . . . The book is an important contribution to the history of Jews in economic thought and to the study of the relationship between law and language."---Joshua Teplitsky, Antisemitism Studies --- "Astonishing book."---Germano Maifreda, QUEST- Issues in Contemporary Jewish History --- "The valuable study by Francesca Trivellato, who transcends national and linguistic boundaries . . . shows how a study of “international” anti-Semitism can be done by focusing on one particular example such as a legend on Jewish economic activity and its subsequent spread throughout Europe."---Oliver Schulz, QUEST- Issues in Contemporary Jewish History --- "The book is highly relevant today and truly inspiring."---Tom Tölle, H-Soz-u-Kult --- "[An] important book deserving the widest possible readership across disciplines. . . . [Its] subject is nothing less than the making of the modern world."---Robert Fredona, Business History Review --- "Moving deftly through economic history, law, and the annals of anti-Semitism."---Elka Weber, Segula Jewish History Magazine --- "“The book’s long subtitle promises to tell us what this forgotten legend reveals ‘about the making of European commercial society.’ It is a testament to the author’s erudition, patient research, and intellectual ecumenism that her book delivers so richly on this promise.”"---Rowan Dorin, Law and History Review --- "A meticulous survey of the early modern commercial and economic literature. . . . The Promise and Peril of Credit is a book as erudite as it is sweeping. With ease and elegance, the author crosses not only language barriers, but also the trans-temporal divide between early modern and modern times. . . . Trivellato adds important nuance to our understanding of anti-Judaism."---Daniel Jütte, Eighteenth-Century Studies --- "The Promise and Peril of Credit masterfully traces changing European attitudes to finance and commerce in the early modern and modern periods."---Francesca Bregoli, Journal of Modern History --- "[An] important and potentially field-changing [book]. . . . Trivellato’s work has much contemporary resonance."---Flora Cassen, Jewish Quarterly Review --- "Trivellato’s The Promise and Peril of Credit bristles with intelligence, insight, and ingenuity: it is one of the most sophisticated, thoughtful, and thought-provoking books I have read (and enjoyed reading) in recent years."---Lars Fischer, Jewish Historical Studies --- "Trivellato’s close, convincing analysis makes for stimulating reading."---Thomas Max Safley, Economic History Review --- "Part history, part mystery . . . . [A] tour de force history of economic thought that gives deep insight into the evolution of thought towards (and mainly against) Jews . . . . The Promise and Peril of Credit was a true pleasure to read. For anyone interested in the history of early modern economic thought or Jewish economic history, this book is a must read."---Jared Rubin, The Journal of Economic History --- "Extraordinary. . . . Trivellato’s excellent book shows the power and the necessity of credible history to fight ever corrosive and dangerous legends alive and thriving in our own technologically-advanced yet troubled times."---Jacob Soll, New Republic --- "[Trivellato] deftly demonstrates how dangerous such stories [about credit] can be—and how widespread their effects."---Rebecca L. Spang, Times Literary Supplement --- "Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture, Association for Jewish Studies" --- "Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society"