Title Merchant writers : Florentine memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Vittore Branca ; translated by Murtha Baca ; with a biographical essay by Cesare De Michelis.

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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2015.

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Description	1 online resource
Series	Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian library series
	Lorenzo da Ponte Italian library.
Note	Translation of: Mercanti scrittori.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	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.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Florence (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
	Commerce -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
	Merchants -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.
	Florence (Italy) -- Commerce -- History.
	Florence (Italy) -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	HISTORY -- Renaissance.
	Commerce
	Commerce -- Medieval
	Manners and customs
	Merchants
	Italy -- Florence https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRwJdQvjQQjKQCDPvW9c
Chronological Term	500-1500
Genre/Form	collective biographies.
	Biographies
	History
	Biographies.
Added Author	Baca, Murtha, translator.
	Branca, Vittore, editor.
Added Title	Mercanti scrittori. English.
Other Form:	Print version: Mercanti scrittori. English. Merchant writers 9781442637146 (OCoLC)907173896
ISBN	9781442624832 (electronic bk.)
	1442624833 (electronic bk.)
	9781442637146
	1442637145

Title Merchant writers : Florentine memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Vittore Branca ; translated by Murtha Baca ; with a biographical essay by Cesare De Michelis.

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