From the Fall of the Empire to the Beginning of the 16th Century.
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Hoboken :
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Taylor and Francis,
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2013.
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1 online resource (272 pages)
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Cover; Title page; Copyright; Content; I. THE LAST TWO CENTURIES OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE; II. FROM THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE TO THE PARTITION OF ITALY BETWEEN GREEKS AND LOMBARDS; III. FROM THE PARTITION OF ITALY TO THE CAROLINGIAN CONQUEST (SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CENTURIES); IV. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN CAROLINGIAN AND FEUDAL ITALY; V. BEGINNINGS OF REVIVAL IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES; VI. ITALY IN THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES; VII. THE URBAN ECONOMY IN ITS PRIME. THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES; VIII. THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE; INDEX.
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This book is the first to provide English readers with a brief and comprehensive survey of economic life in Italy during the period of its greatest splendour: the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The wealth of Renaissance Italy was the product of centuries of growth, and the great Renaissance cities, Venice, Milan and Florence, were first and foremost centres of international trade, which taught the rest of Europe the rudiments of modern business techniques. In a masterly synthesis, based upon a lifetime of study and research, Professor Gino Luzzatto, the greatest of living Italian histo.
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An Economic History of Italy : From the Fall of the Empire to the Beginning of the 16th Century.