- The
Practica della mercatura (Italian for "The
Practice of Commerce"), also
known as the Merchant's Handbook, is a
comprehensive guide to international...
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commerce and trade,
which he
articulated in his
seminal work, "Della
mercatura e del
mercante perfetto" (Book on the Art of Trade). As a
diplomat of...
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Benvenuto Stracca, (Ancona, 1509–1579)
published in 1553 the
treatise De
mercatura seu
mercatore tractats; it was one of the first, if not the first, legal...
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Pegolotti provided a
table of
compound interest in his book
Pratica della mercatura of
about 1340. It
gives the
interest on 100 lire, for
rates from 1% to...
- 1300. An
Italian merchant's
handbook dated about 1340,
Pratica della mercatura by Pegolotti, used the term
bisant for
coins of
North Africa (including...
- amb****ador to Naples,
described double-entry
bookkeeping in his
treatise Della mercatura e del
mercante perfetto.
Although it was
originally written in 1458, no...
- used in the problems. List of
Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
Della mercatura e del
mercante perfetto Footnotes Benedetto Cotrugli predates him with...
- and
venatoria (warfare and hunting,
military education, "martial arts")
mercatura (trade)
coquinaria (cooking)
metallaria (blacksmithing, metallurgy) Leonardo...
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Ragusan economist Benedetto Cotrugli's 1458[citation needed]
treatise Della mercatura e del
mercante perfetto contained the
earliest known[citation needed]...
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Balducci Pegolotti, a
merchant from Florence,
compiled the
Pratica della mercatura, a
guide about trade in China, a
country he
called Cathay,
noting the...
