… to discerning variety in relational meaning using multiple-… circulation of personal lending in
early Quattrocento Florence was … Overall, we discerned meaning (or more precisely, meanings…

… to me, reading many pages of this book and offering both astute … many years ago, and to
the Casa di Ospitalità Sette Santi in … , we might well understand that networking is a relational …

… we understand Renaissance Florence. It used to be said that … Sharon Strocchia offers a
perceptive look at a world that … Although many historians (including all the contributors to …

… Finally, to my husband Arthur, thank you for your love and astute … Typically, in fifteenth-century
Florence, many family members … This book attempts to better understand the society of this …

… , we can still understand the repressive political structure erected in Florence during the two
… Wiser and more insightful than his more literary contem porary, Bruni, Dati suggested that …

… one point in time is unhelpful in discerning such a pattern. However, we do observe multiple
… , for an examination of the circulation of personal loans and other kinds of non- commercial …

… in Florence banned from all moneylending practices … , Florence had about a hundred such
constructions, many … The practical effect was that longterm loans became difficult, because a …

… crisis several weeks later, he was made lord of Florence for … are central to our understanding
of Florentine economic … has also commented on the personalized character of loans …

… In another passage, Vasari developed a sociological explanation for Florence's … people,
lively, shrewd and bold in their enterprises, as we have witnessed many times; although they are …

… It is rather ironical, since the present study independently confirms so many of his hypotheses,
that Heers sees Florence … half of its households were complex in structure. The "nuclear" …