St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers

Jason Aaron Brown is a research fellow at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba.

• List of Tables, Plates, and FiguresList of PhotosAcknowledgementsPrefaceAbbreviationsChronology of St Antoninus’s LifePart 1: Introduction1. St Antoninus of FlorencePreamble. St Antoninus today1. Sources for the biography of Antoninus2. First influences: Niccolò Pierozzi and the Dominican friars3. Giovanni Dominici and canon law4. The Observant reform movement and the founding of San Marco5. Antoninus the Counsellor6. Archbishop of Florence, 1446–14597. Saint Antoninus and his posthumous influence2. The SummaPreamble. The written works of St Antoninus1. The conception of the Summa2. Textual witnesses: identifying the autograph manuscripts3. The composition of the Summa4. Conclusion: the Summa as Recollectorium3. The Scholastic Tradition on Justice in Buying and SellingPreamble. Antoninus’s authorities in the Summa as a whole1. Introductory remarks2. The Bible, Church fathers, and sacred canons via Peter Lombard and Gratian3. Roman law via the Liber Extra and the decretalists4. Aristotle via Thomas Aquinas: Aquinas’s synthesis5. Postscript: Peter John Olivi via Bernardino of Siena4. St Antoninus’s Teaching on Trade, Merchants, and WorkersPreamble. The business culture of renaissance Florence1. Theology of work: Summa 3.8.12. Justice in buying and selling: Summa 2.1.163. Fraudulent practices, especially those known in Florence: Summa 2.1.174. Types of contracts: Summa 3.8.25. Exchange banking and other commercial transactions: Summa 3.8.36. The different sorts of workers and their vices: Summa 3.8.47. Purpose: preaching, hearing confessions, and consulting in the court of soulsPart 2: Latin Text and English TranslationIntroduction to the EditionTextual witnessesCodicological descriptionsEditorial principlesNote on the translation Apparatus abbreviationsEdition and TranslationAntoninus Florentinus, Summa, 2.1.16 De fraudulentia per modum predicationis / On fraud, arranged for preachingAntoninus Florentinus, Summa, 2.1.17 De uariis fraudibus que commictuntur in negotiando / On the various frauds which are committed in tradingAntoninus Florentinus, Summa, 3.8.1 De merchatoribus et artificibus per modum sermonis / On merchants and workers, arranged for a sermonAntoninus Florentinus, Summa, 3.8.2 De diuersis generibus contractuum / On the various kinds of contracts Antoninus Florentinus, Summa, 3.8.3 De negotiatoribus et campsoribus / On traders and bankersAntoninus Florentinus, Summa, 3.8.4 De diuersis generibus artificum / On the various kinds of workersBibliographyPre-1600Post-1600Appendix 1. Recensions1. Table of substantial additions to the first recension of 2.1.162. Table of substantial additions to the first recension of 2.1.173. First draft of 3.8.1 on M2 fol. 69r4. Table of substantial additions to the first recension of 3.8.15. First draft of 3.8.2 on M2 fol. 114v–115r6. Table of substantial additions to the first recension of 3.8.27. Table of substantial additions to the first recension of 3.8.38. Table of substantial additions to the first recension of 3.8.4Appendix 2. Sources and parallel passages for 2.1.16SummaryTable of sources and parallel passagesAppendix 3. Description of the hand A’s letter-forms