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In de schaduw van De' Medici: uit de memoires van Marco Parenti
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ISBN: 9026946791 Year: 1989 Publisher: Houten De Haan

Siena and the Sienese in the thirteenth century
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ISBN: 052140312X 0521024692 0511097956 0511583869 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This 1991 book portrays the life and institutions of a great medieval Italian city, Siena, through the surviving records and buildings of the period. Laws, council minutes, records of the commune's revenue and expenditure, wills and other charters from the thirteenth century are among the plentiful material which makes up the picture of the city republic's institutions and those who ran them. The main themes are the political institutions of the city, and the involvement of the citizens in them. The religion of the Sienese is also investigated. This is a portrait of a special, but not untypical, society which was engaged in an experiment in oligarchic self-government. Although the milieu was urban, Siena's bankers and tradesmen, craftsmen and those involved in transport and agricultural labour, were in many cases landowners: the city was dependent on and greatly involved with its rural environment. The precocity of the commune's governmental methods and the wealth of information that has survived mean that the medieval life of this famous and beautiful Tuscan city can be depicted in full and convincing detail.

The medieval super-companies : a study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence
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ISBN: 0521461561 0521894158 0511528795 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This 1994 book presents a detailed description and history of one of the most famous companies of the early fourteenth century. This analysis of the Peruzzi Company produces a radical reassessment of what made the Florentine 'super-companies' so exceptional: commodity trading, especially in grain, which required heavy capital, sophisticated organisation, and an international network. But the book also exposes the limitations of their financial power, and explodes the myth that the collapse of the Peruzzi and its joint-venture partner, the Bardi, was caused by bad loans to Edward III made to finance his invasions of France.


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Kings of the street : power, community, and ritual in Renaissance Florence
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ISBN: 9782503541723 Year: 2015 Volume: 17 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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