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Usury and public debt in early Renaissance Florence

by Lawrin D. Armstrong

2003 460 pages eng

"Money, politics and law were intimately linked in the merchant republics of medieval and Renaissance Italy. Nowhere was this more evident than in the realm of public finance. Beginning in the twelfth century, governments borrowed money from citizens to meet expenses that exceeded ordinary revenues;…

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