Decline and Economic Ideals in Italy in the Early Modern Age, (Paperback)

What did the Italian think of money and wealth during the Renaissance? In this work published for the first time in 1940, Gino Barbieri traces the evolution of Italian economic ideals through the analysis of the writings of theologians, men of law and of business. The book, here in the English translation, reveals astounding similarities between the pivotal role of finance in those days and now.