Medieval Super-Companies. A study of the Peruzzi Company of Florence
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- Author(s) Hunt, Edwin S
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1994
- Pages 291pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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Scholarly work examining the great Italian merchant families of the 13th and 14th centuries as 'complete business organizations', through a case study of the Peruzzi family. Provides a detailed description and history of the Peruzzi, through it reassessing what made 'the Florentine 'super-companies' so exceptional'. Touches on the collapse of the Peruzzi (and the Bardi) and its association with bad loans made to Edward III which is described as a myth. Structured in three parts: Part 1] 'Anatomy of the medieval super-company': 'The company and the family'; 'The nature of the business'; 'The structure of the Peruzzi Company'; 'The accounting of the Peruzzi Company'; Part 2] 'History of the Peruzzi Company from its reorganisation in 1300: 'The prosperous years, 1300-1324'; 'The decline begins, 1325-1335'; 'The critical years, 1335-1340'; 'The collapse, 1340-1343'; 'The aftermath'; Part 3] Appendices: include 'Genealogical charts'; Shareholder data; Exchange rate trends, etc. Includes also much about the Bardi but much less about the Riccardi, Frescobaldi, Baroncelli, etc