Florentine Merchants In The Age Of The Medici - Letters And Documents From The Selfridge Collection Of Medici Manuscripts

This contribution to the economic history of the Renaissance in Italy is based upon material in the Selfridge Collection of Medici manuscripts lent to the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University by Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge of London, material never before available to the public. The work is designed to show something of the rich content of the Collection as a whole, covering the closing years of the fifteenth century, a time of great political confusion and of economic depression, and including bills of exchange, articles of association, correspondence between Florentine merchants and their agents who were located in Pera (a suburb of Constantinople), and also a glossary of business and historical terms found in the manuscripts, illustrations of certain pages, and a biographical appendix. Foreword Contents List of illustrations Introduction Florence under the medici Manuscript 547 letters of Giovanni Di Francesco Maringhi, written from Pera to Florence, 1501-1502 Manuscript 495 inventory of t h e possessions of Giovanni Di Francesco Maringhi 1506 (O.S.) Manuscript 553 Letter-Book of Raffaello Di Francesco De' Medici from july 24, 1520, to april 24, 1521 Manuscript 495 Articles of Association Manuscript 495 bills of exchange and letters from Piacenza to Cosimo De' Medici in Florence, 1627 Appendix Bibliography General Index