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Merchant Writers - Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Merchant Writers - Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Hardcover)
Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
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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.
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