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The Practice and Culture of Accounting in Renaissance Florence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2015

RICHARD GOLDTHWAITE
RICHARD GOLDTHWAITE*
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Richard Goldthwaite is Professor of History, Emeritus, at The Johns Hopkins University. Contact information: via Pier Capponi, 41, 50132 Florence, Italy. E-mail: rgoldth1@jhu.edu.
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Abstract

This article explores cultural aspects of the unique archival patrimony of private account books that survive for Florence from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth century, a period corresponding to the city’s greatness as a center of both Renaissance culture and early capitalism. The discussion first surveys the diffusion and the standardization of accounting practice throughout the society, the educational process behind this development, and the emergence of the professional accountant. It then analyzes double entry in its application to both business (including industrial) and domestic accounts in the attempt to extend our knowledge of the accounting reality in this pre-modern capitalist economy beyond the traditional view derived from manuals and theoretical notions. The conclusion examines the cultural functions of Florentine accounting practice ranging from the so-called spirit of capitalism in the business world to some particular characteristics that disposed Florentines in general toward this kind of record keeping.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 611 - 647
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Hoshino, Hidetoshi. L’Arte della Lana in Firenze nel Basso Medioevo. Florence: Olschki Editore, 1980.Google Scholar
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Davids, Karel. “The Bookkeeper’s Tale: Learning Merchant Skills in the Northern Netherlands in the Sixteenth Century.” In Education and Learning in the Netherlands, 1400–1600: Essays in Honour of Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, edited by Goudriaan, Koen, Moolenbroek, Jaap van, and Tervoort, Ad, 235–251. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2004.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Roover, Raymond. “Early Accounting Problems of Foreign Exchange.” Accounting Review 19 (1944): 381–407.Google Scholar
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Fridenson, Patrick. “The Bilateral Relationship between Accounting History and Business History: A French Perspective.” Accounting, Business & Financial History 17 (2007): 375–380.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Funnell, Warwick, and Robertson, Jeffrey. “Capitalist Accounting in Sixteenth Century Holland.” Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 24 (2011): 560–586.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gervais, Pierre. “Crédit et filières marchandes au XVIIIe siècles.” Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales 67 (2012), 1011–1048.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goldthwaite, Richard A. “Schools and Teachers of Commercial Arithmetic in Renaissance Florence.” Journal of European Economic History 1 (1972): 418–433(reprinted in Banks, Palaces and Entrepreneurs in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot: Variorum, 1995).Google Scholar
Goldthwaite, Richard A. “The Florentine Wool Industry in the late Sixteenth Century: A Case Study.” Journal of European Economic History 32 (2003): 527–554.Google Scholar
Goldthwaite, Richard A. “An Entrepreneurial Silk Weaver in Renaissance Florence,” I Tatti Studies 10 (2005): 69–126.Google Scholar
Goldthwaite, Richard A. “Le aziende seriche e il mondo degli affari a Firenze alla fine del ‘500,’” Archivio storico italiano 169 (2011): 281–341.Google Scholar
Kent, Dale. “Michele del Giogante’s House of Memory.” In Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence, edited by Connell, William J., 110–136. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kent, Dale. “The Lodging House of All Memories: An Accountant’s Home in Renaissance Florence.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 66 (2007): 444–463.Google Scholar
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane. “Comptes et mémoire: l’écriture des livre de famille florentins.” In L’écrit dans la société médiéval: textes en hommage à Lucien Fossier, 251–258. Paris: CNRS, 1991.Google Scholar
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Pinto, Giuliano. “Contadini e proprietari nelle campagne fiorentine: il piviere dell’Impruneta.” In Impruneta: una pieve, un paese. Cultura, parrocchia e società nella campagna toscana (atti del convegno, 1979), 153–180. Florence: Salimbeni, 1983 (reprinted in Toscana medievale: paesaggi e realtà sociale. Florence: Le Lettere, 1993).Google Scholar
Postma, Johanna, and van der Helm, Anne J.. “La riegola de libro: Bookkeeping Instructions from the Mid-fifteenth Century,” paper for the 8th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Madrid, Spain, July 19–21, 2000, available online athttp://home.kpn.nl/annejvanderhelm/paper.htm.Google Scholar
Quattrone, Paolo. “Books to be Practiced: Memory, the Power of the Visual, and the Success of Accounting.” Accounting, Organizations and Society 34 (2009): 85–118.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sangster, Alan. “Locating the Source of Pacioli’s Bookkeeping Treatise.” Accounting Historians Journal 39 (2012): 97–110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sapori, Armando. “Il ‘ragioniere’ medievale.” In Studi di storia economica (secoli XIII–XIV–XV), 1: 95–100. Florence: Sansoni Editore, 1955.Google Scholar
Stipetić, Vladimir. “Marin Rafaeli of Ragusa on Double-Entry Bookkeeping in 1475: A Recent Discovery by Anne J. van der Helm and Johanna Postma.” Dubrovnik Annals 6 (2002): 123–129.Google Scholar
Tognetti, Sergio. “L’industria conciaria nella Firenze del Cinquecento: uno studio sulla contabilità aziendale.” Archivio storico italiano 170 (2012): 61–110.Google Scholar
Tucci, Ugo. “Le tecniche di contabilità.” in Storia dell’economia mondiale, I: Permanenze e mutamenti dall’antichità al medioevo, edited by Valerio Castronovo, 511–529. Bari: Laterza, 1996.Google Scholar
Ulivi, Elisabetta. “Benedetto da Firenze (1429–1479), un maestro d’abaco del XV secolo; con documenti inediti e con un’Appendice su abacisti e scuole d’abaco a Firenze nei secoli XIII-XVI.” Bollettino di storia delle scienze matematiche 22 (2002): 3–243.Google Scholar
Ulivi, Elisabetta. “Raffaello Canacci, Piermaria Bonini e gli abacisti della famiglia Grassini.” Bollettino di storia delle scienze matematiche 24 (2004): 123–211.Google Scholar
Yamey, Basil. “The Functional Development of Double-entry Bookkeeping.” The Accountant (November 1940): 333–342.Google Scholar
Archivio di Stato, FlorenceGoogle Scholar
Biblioteca Laurenziana, FlorenceGoogle Scholar
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, FlorenceGoogle Scholar
Biblioteca Riccardiana, FlorenceGoogle Scholar
Harvard University, Baker Business Library, Cambridge, MAGoogle Scholar