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Cover of I Gondi di Lione
First published
2013
Publisher
Leo S. Olschki editore
Pages
143 pages
ISBN
8822262859

I Gondi di Lione

The outer archives are busy

by Sergio Tognetti

About this book

Il volume analizza la storia di una banca d'affari e di una famiglia fiorentina trapiantate a Lione all'inizio del Cinquecento. I tre superstiti libri mastri della compagnia Gondi sono esaminati con lo scopo di descrivere il ruolo dell'imprenditoria mercantile, bancaria e finanziaria fiorentina in un centro fondamentale dell'economia europea del Rinascimento. Spezie indonesiane e drappi italiani, speculazioni valutarie e prestiti ai sovrani, animano una potente élite di uomini d'affari, guidati da un sentimento di grandeur e da un ambizioso mecenatismo culturale e artistico.-- The volume analyses the history of a merchant-bank and of a Florentine family transplanted in Lyon at the beginning of XVI century. The three surviving ledgers of Gondi company are investigated in order to describe the role of the Florentine mercantile, banking and financial entrepreneurship in a basic center of the European economy of the Renaissance. Indonesian spices and Italian silk clothes, currency speculations and loans to the kings, stimulate a powerful élite of businessmen, moved by a feeling of grandeur and by an ambitious cultural and artistic patronage.--

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