Money, Culture, Beauty. the Botti Family: Merchant-Bankers in Renaissance

Angela Orlandi is Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence. She is also Director of the Francesco Datini International Institute of Economic History in Prato. She chairs and serves on editorial boards of Italian and foreign journals. She is included in numerous national and international research projects and her interests invest international trade, business history in conjunction with the topic of Tuscan and Italian entrepreneurs abroad (which includes their strategies, methods, procedures and hierarchies), the public finance and the exchange and credit markets, with a particular focus on public debt; a final area consists of an examination of luxury consumption among Tuscan merchants between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.