The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494

by Raymond de Roover

Overview

Drawing from then newly discovered Florentine accounts, this history offers a definitive interpretation of the most famous Italian Renaissance bank, the Medici Bank. Set against the background of Renaissance banking, it tracks the bank's trajectory as it passed from competent to disastrous managers. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's online version of the same title.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149040988
Publisher:	ACLS Humanities E-Book
Publication date:	12/09/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	538
File size:	13 MB
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Editorial Reviews

Three years of research in the Florentine archives, with the assistance of Florence Edler de Roover (the author's wife and a distinguished scholar in her own right), plus several years of critical elaboration of the material, have enabled De Roover to transform his earlier sketch into a formidable monograph, where the economic organization and activities of the Medici bank are discussed in full detail.

The Journal of Modern History, 36.4 (Dec. 1964): 438-439 - Robert Sabatino Lopez

This work is far more than a much enlarged version of the author's The Medici Bank, published in 1948; it is the definitive product of long researches of which the earlier book was the first token. (…) Moreover, it provides an institutional and economic background which is particularly valuable to the reader who is not specialized in economic history.

Renaissance News: 17.3 (Autumn 1964): 251-253 - Nicolai Rubinstein