Vittore Branca, ed. Merchant Writers of the Italian Renaissance from Boccaccio to Machiavelli.(Book Review) From: Italica | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: Smarr, Janet Levarie | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Association of Teachers of Italian. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Trans. Martha Baca. New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1999.

Vittore Branca has been publishing on the mercantile culture of Florence for over half a century. Although he is best known in the United States for his work on Boccaccio, his anthology of ricordi by Florentine merchants appeared in Italian in 1986. What now comes to us in English is not simply a translation but a revised and abbreviated version of that anthology. Although the English text nowhere indicates or expl...