Mercanti e libri di conto nella toscana del basso medioevo: Le edizioni di registri aziendali dagli anni '60 del novecento a oggi

Abstract

In the European comparison Tuscany stands out by having the most important business archives (merchant, banking and manufacturing firms) for economic history of the later Middle Ages. The combined archives of Florence and Prato alone have around 2,500 account books, a figure greatly exceeding those available in the rest of Italy and Europeput together. The present paper considers the corporate account books published in the last 50 years, with reference, moreover, to the first half of the XXth century. The aim is to emphasize the role played by accounting sources written by the merchants of Tuscan towns in latemedieval economic history.