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Appunti di metrologia mercantile genovese

Un contributo della documentazione aziendale Datini
  • Maria Giagnacovo,

This work starts from one of the most complex issues that the economic operator of the late Middle Ages had to face in order to carry out his activities, namely a constantly up-to-date understanding of the systems of weights and measures in use on the different markets, in order to rationally set their business strategies. The critical analysis of the best-known market practices and of an impressive amount of documents from the business archive of the merchant Francesco Datini from Prato (common and specialised correspondence, accounting) allowed to identify Genoa’s weight system - a privileged point of view - and to compare it with the systems of other countries, which had an economic relationship with the city. Moreover, it has been possible to define the packaging used , goods by goods, with their relative weights and tares.

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Maria Giagnacovo

University of Molise, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1857-6836

Maria Giagnacovo teaches economic history at the University of Molise. Her research and publications focus on the analysis of the economic and commercial activities of Italian operators in the medieval Mediterranean, with specific attention to the reality of Genoa, as well as on the reconstruction of the consumption patterns of the merchant class in the late Middle Ages.
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Book Title

Appunti di metrologia mercantile genovese

Book Subtitle

Un contributo della documentazione aziendale Datini

Authors

Maria Giagnacovo

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

326

Publication Year

2014

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© 2014 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6655-683-1

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978-88-6655-682-4

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978-88-6655-683-1

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978-88-6655-684-8

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978-88-5518-945-3

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Biblioteca di storia

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2464-9007

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2704-5986

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