This is the first comprehensive survey of the coinage of north Italy, c.950â 1500. The volume reveals for the first time the wider trends that shaped the coinages of the region, incorporating a fully illustrated catalogue of the Fitzwilliam Museum's unrivalled collection of north Italian coins and numerous detailed appendices.
This is the first comprehensive survey of the coinage of north Italy, c.950â 1500. The volume reveals for the first time the wider trends that shaped the coinages of the region, incorporating a fully illustrated catalogue of the Fitzwilliam Museum's unrivalled collection of north Italian coins and numerous detailed appendices.
William R. Day, Jr, is an economic historian and numismatist. He completed his PhD on the early development of the Florentine economy, c.1100-1275 at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1999. In 2008-09, he was Jean-François Malle Fellow at the Villa I Tatti (Harvard University Center of Italian Renaissance Studies) near Florence, where he initiated research on Florentine and other Italian personnel in foreign mints, 1200-1600. His publications on medieval numismatics include 'Early imitations of the gold florin of Florence and the imitation florin of Theodore I Paleologus, marquis of Montferrat (1306-38)' in The Numismatic Chronicle 168 (2004), 'I fiorini piemontesi nel Trecento: il fiorino del Marchese Teodoro I Paleologo di Monferrato (1306-38) nel contesto regionale, italiano ed europeo' in La moneta in Monferrato tra medioevo ed età moderna (edited by Luca Gianazza, 2009), and 'Fiorentini e altri italiani appaltatori di zecche straniere (1200-1600): un progetto di ricerca' in Annali di Storia di Firenze 5 (2010). He is also author of several articles on the economic history of medieval Florence.
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1. General introduction 2. Royal and imperial coinages 3. Piedmont 4. Liguria 5. Lombardy 6. Veneto (including Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol) Appendices Bibliography Sales catalogues Catalogue Concordances Indexes.
