Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History, #10)

by Tim Carter and Richard A. Goldthwaite

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This record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the first detailed account of the Florentine economy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and opens a completely new perspective on one of Europe's principal centers of capitalism.
  • ISBN13 9780674726574
  • Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 4 November 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press