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Economics 315

Monday, January 9

Florence

pontevecchio


Afternoon walking tour of Florence, including the Uffizi Gallery, the Duomo, and Pontevecchio.

Readings

Abulafia, David, “Southern Italy and the Florentine Economy, 1265-1370,” Economic History Review 34 (August 1981), 377-388. 

Cipolla, Carlo M., "A Plague Doctor," in The Medieval City edited by Miskimin, Herlihy, and Udovitch, Yale University Press

Herlihy, D., "Population, Plague and Social Change in Rural Pistoia, 1201-1430," The Economic History Review 1965

Economist, "Plague and Economics," December 31, 1999.

Excerpts from Lopez, Robert S., and Irving W. Raymond, Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World Cambridge University Press 1955:

Florence, a Masterpiece of the Commercial Revolution


Links

History of Florence

Online map of Florence

How the Black Death came to Italy

Read the Introduction to Boccaccio's Decameron describing the Plague in Florence

Economic effects of the Plague