Merchant Writers : : Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance / / Vittore Branca; Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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