Call Number:

C0843

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

Italian

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Selected Business Correspondence of Lorenzo Corsini, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1581-1598 (inclusive)

Creator:

Corsini, Lorenzo, fl. 1581-1598.

Form:

Correspondence -- 16th century

Abstract:

Consists of sixteenth-century business correspondence of Italian textile merchant Lorenzo Corsini in Florence, Italy.

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.