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Article: Die deutsche Einwanderung nach Florenz im Spatmittelalter.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2007
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Lorenz Boninger. Die deutsche Einwanderung nach Florenz im Spatmittelalter.
The Medieval Mediterranean 60. Leiden: Brill, 2006. x + 412 pp. index. append. $161. ISBN: 90-04-15047-1.
Lorenz Boninger has written a splendid book about German immigration to Florence in the later Middle Ages. This carefully researched study, brimming with otherwise out-of-the-way information and the results of the most recent scholarship, provides a helpful reminder that Florence achieved European prominence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries because it lay at the center of a great commercial web extending throughout the Continent and beyond. The urban centers of ...