The great merchant-bankers of the Italian peninsula, particularly the Florentines, were renowned for their accounting and technical expertise. The double-entry system they used to keep their accounts is proof of their 'modernity'. It is therefore interesting to look at the practice of doing business by exchanging goods rather than by paying in cash or using bookkeeping entries as a means of balancing the books, a practice that has existed for a very long time in all areas of trade and commerce. The Salviati family of Florence is a privileged observatory for analysing trade and commercial practices, thanks to the preservation of their accounts, particularly for their branch opened in London in 1445.
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Les Salviati et le troc monétarisé: des pratiques courantes au XVe siècle entre la Méditerranée et le Nord-Ouest de l’Europe
Autori
Matthieu Scherman
Lingua
French
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0347-0.17
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Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Mezzi di scambio non monetari. Merci e servizi come monete alternative nelle economie dei secoli XIII-XVIII / Alternative currencies. Commodities and services as exchange currencies in the monetarized economies of the 13th to 18th centuries
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
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Numero di pagine
592
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0347-0
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0346-3
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0347-0
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979-12-215-0348-7
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195