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 account books, memoirs, and diaries. Written by ordinary men, these first-hand accounts of commercial life recorded the everyday realities of their businesses,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1442637145
ISBN13:9781442637146
Release Date:October 2015
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:424 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"
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