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93
Lopez and Raymond, Medieval Trade, no. 194; Dahl, Trade, p. 82.
94
Dahl, Trade, p. 83.
95
Gertrude R. B. Richards (ed.), Florentine Merchants in the Age of the Medici: Letters and Documents from the Selfridge Collection of Medici Manuscripts (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932), p. 109; Dahl, Trade, p. 83.
96
Paolo da Certaldo, Libro di buoni costumi, ed. Alfredo Schiaffini (Florence, 1946), pp. 149-50.
97
Goldthwaite, Economy of Renaissance Florence, p. 95.
98
Theodor Gustav Werner, ‘Das kaufmannische Nachrichtenwesen im spaten Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit und sein Einfluss auf die Entstehung der handschriftlichen Zeitung’, Scripta Mercaturae (1975), pp. 3-51.
99
Goldthwaite, Economy of Renaissance Florence, p. 94.
100
George Christ, ‘A Newsletter in 1419? Antonio Morosini’s Chronicle in the Light of Commercial Correspondence between Venice and Alexandria’, Mediterranean Historical Review, 20 (2005), pp. 35–66, here pp. 41-2.
101
Richards, Florentine Merchants, 263; Dahl, Trade, p. 116.
102
Dahl, Trade, p. 104. They were, however, permitted to play chess, to while away the long evenings.
103
Dahl, Trade, p. 119.
