Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Vittore Branca

Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance Vittore Branca ebook
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Page: 408
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781442637146

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