Italian Merchant Bankers in North-Western Europe in the Late Middle Ages

Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli is Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Florence, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Visiting Reader at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of four books and of more than sixty academic articles on various aspects of the economic history of the Renaissance. In the UK, he has been a member, in various capacities, of research projects at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Bristol and the University of York. His previous publications includes Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome (2007).

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