GARZONI. Apprenticeship in Venice. The Accordi dei Garzoni data from 1575 until 1772

The Garzoni dataset comprises more than 54,000 apprenticeship contracts registered in Venice from the 16th to the 18th century, sourced from the records of the Giustizia Vecchia, held at the Venetian State Archives. The contracts were manually annotated and curated via a dedicated web application, considering a wide range of contractual information,also including social and geographical relations. This rich and extensive dataset of over 54,000 annotated apprenticeship contracts can support the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice.This release contains the following Garzoni data, in JSON and XLSX formats: contracts person mentions person_relationships persons profession_categories professions locations Please note that location normalization is incomplete.