Appunti di metrologia mercantile genovese
Un contributo della documentazione aziendale Datini
- Maria Giagnacovo,
This work starts from one of the most complex issues that the economic operator of the late Middle Ages had to face in order to carry out his activities, namely a constantly up-to-date understanding of the systems of weights and measures in use on the different markets, in order to rationally set their business strategies. The critical analysis of the best-known market practices and of an impressive amount of documents from the business archive of the merchant Francesco Datini from Prato (common and specialised correspondence, accounting) allowed to identify Genoa’s weight system - a privileged point of view - and to compare it with the systems of other countries, which had an economic relationship with the city. Moreover, it has been possible to define the packaging used , goods by goods, with their relative weights and tares.
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6655-683-1
- Series: Biblioteca di storia
- Scientific Board: Consiglio Editoriale FUP 2010-2016
- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Law Economic History
University of Molise, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1857-6836
- Publication Year: 2014
- Pages: 326
- eISBN: 978-88-6655-683-1
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2014 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2014
- Pages: 326
- ISBN: 978-88-6655-682-4
- Content License: CC BY 4.0
- © 2014 Author(s)
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Book Title
Appunti di metrologia mercantile genovese
Book Subtitle
Un contributo della documentazione aziendale Datini
Authors
Maria Giagnacovo
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Number of Pages
326
Publication Year
2014
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© 2014 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-683-1
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978-88-6655-682-4
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Biblioteca di storia
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2464-9007
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2704-5986
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