In this essay, we have attempted to sketch the conception of work of a late medieval and early modern merchant who, by now sedentary, was at the head of medium-sized business systems, engaged in manufacturing, trade and complex financial transactions. We have done so in the knowledge that each trader was different and that his behaviour was influenced by personal attitudes, character and ambitions. What emerges is a picture in which merchants, capable of 'governing' themselves and their activities, especially in the Tuscan world, lived mercantile life not only as a trade, but as a way of understanding life. Almost a mission like that of the doctor who 'works while he lives'.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6593-8954
Titolo del capitolo
Essere mercante: «governare lui et le sue mercantie et denari» (secc. XIV-XVI)
Autori
Angela Orlandi
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.45
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Curatori
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1894
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0245-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919