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Soft cover. Condición: Good. First Edition, 3rd Pinting. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Good/Strong w/discoloration to upper front/back edges, faint creasing to front, and light surface wear. Shelfwear to upper corners of pgs 33-64. PO name to fEP. Primary resource to late 14th century Italian socio-political history. 141 pgs. Presented are abridged, annotated private journals of two contempory Florentine business men of differing backgrounds, covering 1380 -1430. Buonaccorso Pitti, an aristocrat, while abroad on diplomatic missions, gambled, loaned money to impecunious gamblers, bought & sold jewels, horses, and cargos of saffron & wine. Gregorio Dati's enterprises included a woolen cloth shop, a silk factory, and partnerships in trading companies. xplanations. Testimony to one of the most creative half- centuries in Florentine history, the memoirs also represent a literary genre favoured in Renaissance Florence.