Merchant Writers : : Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance /

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The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city's middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of...

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Merchant Writers : Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Vittore Branca; Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Book of Good Practices -- Memoirs -- Memoirs -- Mirror of Humanity -- Memoirs -- Secret Book -- Last Will and Testament -- Book of Family Affairs -- Memoirs -- Appendix: A Portrait of Vittore Branca -- Index
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The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city's middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of account books, memoirs, and diaries. Written by ordinary men, these first-hand accounts of commercial life recorded the everyday realities of their businesses, families, and personal lives alongside the high drama of shipwrecks, plagues, and political conspiracies.Published in Italian in 1986, Vittore Branca's collection of these accounts established the importance of the genre to the study of Italian society and culture. This new English translation of Merchant Writers includes all the texts from the original Italian edition in their entirety. Moreover, it offers a gripping personal introduction to the mercantile world of medieval and Renaissance Florence.
Issued also in print.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)
Commerce History Medieval, 500-1500.
Merchants Italy Florence Biography.
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Mirror of Humanity --
Secret Book --
Last Will and Testament --
Book of Family Affairs --
Appendix: A Portrait of Vittore Branca --
Index
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Book of Good Practices --
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Mirror of Humanity --
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Introduction --
Book of Good Practices --
Memoirs --
Mirror of Humanity --
Secret Book --
Last Will and Testament --
Book of Family Affairs --
Appendix: A Portrait of Vittore Branca --
Index
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