Merchant Culture in Fourteenth-Century Venice: The 'Zibaldone da Canal'

Merchant Culture in Fourteenth-Century Venice: The 'Zibaldone da Canal' trans. John E. Dotson, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 98 (Binghamton, NY: MRTS, 1994). xii + 228 pp. ISBN o-86698-112-8. $25.00.

This useful and fascinating volume translates Alfredo Stussi's edition of the Zibaldone da Canal, published in 1967 under the auspices of the Comitato per la Pubblicazione delle Fonte Relative alla Storia di Venezia; Stussi is said to have read and criticized a draft of this translation (p. xii). This Zibaldone - the word means a miscellany or commonplace book, in this case a compilation of business, educational and cultural lore - is attributed to a member of the illustrious Venetian family of da...