Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Vittore Branca

Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library

Vittore Branca with Murtha Baca (Translator)

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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 ...

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