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Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library) Hardcover – October 30, 2015

by Vittore Branca (Author), Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini (Editor), 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 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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Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Hardcover: 424 pages
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division (October 30, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1442637145
ISBN-13: 978-1442637146
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,334,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #362 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Regional & Cultural > European > Italian
- #1143 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Renaissance
- #3529 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Medieval

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