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Part One of the "Catalogue". Space limitations and production schedule limitations at the PSR have required that the already very extensive "Catalogue" be split into two parts. This is the Project Stage I version of the first modern published analytical and critical listing of Codex Ashburnham 1792, established through a simultaneous re-inspection of all documents, in situ (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana) (summer 2012), in digital scan (2013-2014), and through an exhaustive study of published items and references. The Stage I version is presented in a format concordant with established Italian archival practice, particularly in terms of descriptor fields equivalent (as much as contextually possible) to the online descriptors characterizing the epistolary corpus of Francesco di Marco Datini of Prato (Archivio di Stato di Prato (Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali)). Abbot of the Badia di Firenze from 1419 to 1439, D. Frei Gomes Eanes left behind a private epistolary archive in the form of a classic carteggio. The correspondence of Abbot Gomes Eanes is of considerable relevance to the study of the pontificates of Martin V (Oddone Colonna) (1417-31) and of Eugenius IV (Gabriele Condulmer) (1431-47), of the Councils of Florence/Ferrara/Basel (1431-49) (Seventeenth Ecumenical Council), of the logistics and modalities of Portugal's contacts with the Roman Curia, of the observant Benedictine Order in Portugal, of the sociology and politics of Portuguese monasticism, and of various Portuguese personalities prominent during the years 1415-40, at court as well as in other walks of life. Project Stage II will involve a publication of this catalogue, with expanded analytical apparatus (Index of Persons, Index of Places, cross-indexing, network analysis of carteggio structure) in book format, release on CD, and as a database available in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana reading room.

Affarista ma anche mecenate e personalità di larghe vedute, Francesco Sassetti fu uno dei più oculati banchieri della Firenze del Quattrocento. Vicino alla famiglia dei Medici, diresse importanti filiali dell'omonimo Banco e, con l'amico Lorenzo il Magnifico, coltivò la passione per i testi classici e le monete antiche...

Entre finales del siglo XIV y la primera mitad del XV, las mayores companias florentinas de la epoca operaron en Barcelona. En una carta al mercader de Prato Francesco di Marco Datini un corresponsal le aconsejaba que actuase con rapidez porque «la ciudad estaba mas llena que nunca de florentinos, y cada uno de ellos habria llevado de buena gana agua a su molino». Se trataba de las tradicionales grandes empresas renacentistas de Florencia, con los cambios que las habian caracterizado despues de las bancarrotas de mediados del Trescientos. Unas empresas muy estructuradas, constituidas por una constelacion de companias independientes, con inversiones diversificadas, que actuaban de forma conjunta desde los principales centros economicos europeos y mediterraneos, gracias a un socio mayoritario que establecia una politica comun y que ponia su nombre como garantia de las transacciones. Estas empresas, unicas en el panorama de la epoca, tenian acceso a recursos economicos y humanos releva...