This new English translation of Merchant Writers includes all the texts from the original Italian edition in their entirety. Moreover, it offers a gripping personal introduction to the mercantile world of medieval and Renaissance Florence.

Translator’s Note
Introduction
Paolo Da Certaldo – Book of Good Practices
Giovanni di Paolo Morelli - Memoirs
Bonaccorso Pitti - Memoirs
Domenico Lenzi the Grain Merchant – Mirror of Humanity
Donato Velluti - Memoirs
Goro Dati – Secret Book 
Francesco Datini – Last Will and Testament 
Lapo Di Giovanni Niccolo De’ Sirigatti – Book of Family Affairs
Bernardo Machiavelli – Memoirs
Appendix - Cesare De Michelis - A Portrait of Vittore Branca

Vittore Branca (1913–2004) was the leading Boccaccio scholar of the twentieth century.