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Medieval Super-Companies: A Study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence »

Authors: Edwin S. Hunt
ISBN-13: 9780521461566, ISBN-10: 0521461561
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

A detailed description and history of one of the most famous companies of the early fourteenth century, the Peruzzi Company.

	List of tables, figures, and map
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Anatomy of the medieval super-company
1	The company and the family	11
2	The nature of the business	38
3	The structure of the Peruzzi Company	76
4	The accounting of the Peruzzi Company	101
Pt. II	History of the Peruzzi Company from its reorganization in 1300
5	The prosperous years, 1300-1324	127
6	The decline begins, 1325-1335	156
7	The critical years, 1335-1340	184
8	The collapse, 1340-1343	212
9	The aftermath	230
	Conclusions	243
	App.: I Genealogical charts of the Peruzzi family	252
	App.: II Peruzzi Company balances at July 1, 1335	256
	App.: III Peruzzi Company and shareholder data	259
	App.: IV Exchange rate trends	266
	App.: V Giovanni Villani: his background and reliability	268
	Bibliography	272
	Index	285