Vittore Branca: 1 book
Merchant Writers
Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
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...
