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Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy : The Monte di Pieta of Florence / Carol Bresnahan Menning.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501737206
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.7/632/094551 20
LOC classification:
  • HG2093.I6
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FONDI CONSULTED (AND ABBREVIATIONS) -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE EARLY MONTI DI PIETA AND THE ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH A MONTE IN FLORENCE -- 2. THE CREATION AND OPERATION OF THE MONTE DI PIETA OF FLORENCE -- 3. DEBTORS AND CREDITORS, 1496-1499 -- 4. GROWTH AND CRISIS, 1500-1530 -- 5. REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION, 1530-1569 -- 6. PATRONAGE, LOANS, AND THE EXERCISE OF DUCAL CONTROL -- 7. FRAUD AND THEFT IN THE MONTE DI PIETA DURING THE REIGN OF COSIMO -- 8. FROM FLORENCE TO SIENA AND BEYOND: THE MEDICI AND THE MONTE DI PIETA -- 9. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A. TABLES -- APPENDIX B. A NOTE ON FLORENTINE MONEY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Drawing on extensive archival evidence, Carol Bresnahan Menning examines the remarkable evolution of the Florentine monte from a small charitable pawnshop to a flourishing savings organization and a powerful instrument of patronage and state finance.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FONDI CONSULTED (AND ABBREVIATIONS) -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE EARLY MONTI DI PIETA AND THE ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH A MONTE IN FLORENCE -- 2. THE CREATION AND OPERATION OF THE MONTE DI PIETA OF FLORENCE -- 3. DEBTORS AND CREDITORS, 1496-1499 -- 4. GROWTH AND CRISIS, 1500-1530 -- 5. REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION, 1530-1569 -- 6. PATRONAGE, LOANS, AND THE EXERCISE OF DUCAL CONTROL -- 7. FRAUD AND THEFT IN THE MONTE DI PIETA DURING THE REIGN OF COSIMO -- 8. FROM FLORENCE TO SIENA AND BEYOND: THE MEDICI AND THE MONTE DI PIETA -- 9. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A. TABLES -- APPENDIX B. A NOTE ON FLORENTINE MONEY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Drawing on extensive archival evidence, Carol Bresnahan Menning examines the remarkable evolution of the Florentine monte from a small charitable pawnshop to a flourishing savings organization and a powerful instrument of patronage and state finance.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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