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Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library) by Vittore Branca; Massimo Ciavolella; Luigi Ballerini; Murtha Baca is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>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 th
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- Author
- Vittore Branca; Massimo Ciavolella; Luigi Ballerini; Murtha Baca
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781442624849
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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