Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. From Moneychanging to Deposit Banking
  • 2. The Supervision and Regulation of Banking
  • 3. The Organization and Operation of Banking Enterprises
  • 4. Bank Failures in the Trecento
  • 5. Bank Failures in the Quattrocento
  • 6. The Making of the Panic of 1499-1500
  • 7. Florentine Merchant Bankers and Their Community
  • 8. Exchange and the Money Market
  • 9. The Grain Office: A "Swiss Bank" for the Nest Eggs of Terraferma Lords, a Quasi-Public Bank for Venetians
  • 10. Bank Loans to the State in the Fifteenth Century
  • 11. Venice's Monte Vecchio: An Overview
  • 12. Criteria Employed in Assessing Patrimonies
  • 13. Family and Finance: Forced Loans and the Open Market at Work
  • 14. Investment by Foreigners in the Monte Vecchio
  • A. Local Deposit Bankers and Partnerships
  • B. Failures of Local Deposit Banks
  • C. Foreign Exchange in Venice during the Datini Years, 1383-1410
  • D. Moneys of Account Revisited
  • E. Foreign Investors in Venetian Credit Institutions
  • F. Rates of Interest on Credit Sales, 1383-1405
  • G. Documents
  • H. Genealogies of the Gaddi, Soranzo, and Priuli Families
  • I. The Value of Money and the Cost of Living
  • J. Builders' Wages from the Late Trecento to the Early Cinquecento.