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Merchant writers : Florentine memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Vittore Branca ; translated by Murtha Baca ; with a biographical essay by Cesare De Michelis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) DG735.6 .M4713 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library
- The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian library series
- Standardized Title:
- Mercanti scrittori. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Commerce.
- Merchants--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Merchants.
- Commerce--Medieval.
- Manners and customs.
- Florence (Italy)--Social life and customs.
- Florence (Italy).
- Florence (Italy)--Commerce--History.
- Florence (Italy)--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 407 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "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."-- From publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Book of good practices / Paolo Da Certaldo
- Memoirs / Giovanni di Paolo Morelli
- Memoirs / Bonaccorso Pitti
- Mirror of humanity / Domenico Lenzi the Grain Merchant
- Memoirs / Donato Velluti
- Secret book / Goro Dati
- Last will and testament / Francesco Datini
- Book of family affairs / Lapo Di Giovanni Niccolo De' Sirigatti
- Memoirs / Bernardo Machiavelli
- Appendix: A portrait of Vittore Branca / Cesare De Michelis.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Mercanti scrittori.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781442637146
- 1442637145
- OCLC:
- 907173896
- Publisher Number:
- 99993243518
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