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Selected Business Correspondence of Lorenzo Corsini

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Corsini, Lorenzo, fl. 1581-1598.

Lorenzo Corsini was a sixteenth-century Italian textile merchant. He controlled a family business which dealt in cloth and other textile commodities, and the importation of European goods.

The collection consists of 92 letters, addressed to Corsini in Florence, Italy, from his agents and various merchants in Bologna, Genoa, Lucca, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Parma, Pisa, Rome, Siena, and Venice. The letters contain financial and commercial information relating to Italian textile manufacture and trade. Many of the letters also contain examples of the various guild signs for Giroldi of Bologna, Strozzin of Venice, and others.

Arranged chronologically.

This collection was purchased from Julian Browning in 1998.

Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.

Collection Inventory

Correspondence I, 1581. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence II, 1582. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence III, 1584. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence IV, 1585. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence V, 1586. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence VI, 1587. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence VII, 1589. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence VIII, 1590. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence IX, 1592. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence X, 1594. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence XI, 1595. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence XII, 1596. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence XIII, 1597. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Correspondence XIV, 1598. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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