Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice. Volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account
Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Octavo, xx, 687 pages with numerous tables and illustrations.
Cloth; edges lightly marked; bookplate (and place of purchase written in ink) on the pastedown; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper a little tanned on (and lightly creased and chipped at the head of) the spine.
The authors discuss 'Venice's economic achievement in terms of the complex system the city's inhabitants developed to manage moneys of account and coins. Money merchants of Venice developed a system whereby a premium attached to moneys of account acted as a stabilizing force and allowed merchants to engage in long-term trade. This system ... helped establish Venice as a dominant city-state in international trade and exchange. This book outlines the development and success of this system through 1508, [making] a significant contribution to the history of money and economics by underscoring the large role that Venice played in the economic history of the West and the ascendance of capitalism as a structuring force of society' (publisher's blurb for the modern paperback version).
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