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Article: Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome: Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534-1549.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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Francesco Guidi Bruscoli. Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome: Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534-1549.
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xxvi + 313 pp. index. append. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 978-0-7546-0732-8.
When Benvenuto Olivieri took his first steps into Rome's world of banking and commerce during the first decades of the sixteenth century, the Medici Popes Leo X and Clement VII were in power. The economy was booming and yielded huge profits to those Florentine merchants who were involved in papal financial affairs. Olivieri began as a minor clerk in the bank of his compatriot Bindo Altoviti, and over time he advanced to become a ...