Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar‚ collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci‚ and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting. He was also called Luca di Borgo after his birthplace‚ Borgo Santo Sepolcro‚ Tuscany. Luca Pacioli studied in Venice and Rome and became a Franciscan friar in the 1470s. He was a travelling mathematics tutor until 1497‚ when he accepted an invitation from Lodovico Sforza ("Il Moro") to work in Milan. There he collaborated with‚ lived with‚ and taught mathematics
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pound‚ making it a distant cousin to that of the British pound sterling. The lira was a monetary unit long before it existed as a coin or note. The lira made its first appearance in the hands of bankers‚ merchants and consumers in Venice in 1472‚ put in place by Doge Nicolas Tron. The Venice lira set a trend for large silver coins with enough space to bear the local ruler’s portrait. These were called testone in Italy‚ from the word testa meaning head‚ teston in France‚ and testoon in Britain
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Marco Polo was born to a powerful merchant family in Venice‚ Italy. When he was seventeen‚ he traveled through the Mongol empire‚ to its capital in China. Marco Polo conducted much business in China and eventually was hired to serve as the governor of a large Chinese port city. Later on‚ Polo composed a book containing everything he learned‚ did‚ and saw‚ during his time in China . Marco Polo(1254-1324) was a merchant traveller who is best known for his informational book‚ The Travels of Marco
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As a public enterprise banking made its first beginning around the middle of 12th century in Italy and the bank of Venice. Founded in 1157 was the first public banking institution. Following if were established Bank of Barcelona and Bank of Genoa in 1401 and 1407 respectively. The bank of Venice and the bank of Genoa continued to operate until the eighteenth century. With the expansion of commercial activities in northern Europe‚ there sprung up a number of private banking houses in Europe and
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All that glitters is not gold; an idiom derived from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. In a note written by Portia‚ she writes‚ "all that glisters is not gold‚" and very well it appears so (2.7.65). For a better understanding of this quote‚ we must understand who the message was intended for. When Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice‚ the year was 1558- right at the beginning of the Elizabethan Era. Queen Elizabeth rein succeeded from 1558 to 1603‚ a period often considered as the golden
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used to exchange goods instead of using money to buy them. However as trade increased and city-states like Venice took place on the trade routes‚ people began to use money to buy their goods‚ which created a monetary economy. Exchangers arose because people needed to change from one currency to another. Craftsmen‚ merchants‚ and bankers became important. Craftsmen made the goods‚ merchants traded them‚ and bankers exchanged and loaned money‚ and provided funding for business. The banks‚ and bankers
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‘The Merchant of Venice’ by William Shakespeare is a play in which one of the main characters is portrayed as both a villain and a victim. The audience’s interpretation of Shylock oscillates throughout the play. We must also recognize that Shylock has most likely become a villain as a result of being unfairly victimized for having Jewish heritage. During the sixteenth century‚ when the play was written‚ mistreatment towards Jews was common; especially in Venice as it was an anti-sematic city. Jewish
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Shylock is a monster of cruelty‚ miser‚ greedy‚ suspicious ‚cunning ‚ bloodthirsty ‚revengeful‚ mean ‚a bad father and a bad master. But it is the circumstances that made him like this. Shylock is a tragic figure‚ trapped by prejudice and driven to revenge by the treatment he receives He is not cruel by nature. He is human in inner-self as the Christians are. He is therefore the most injured man‚ insulted‚ abused and disgraced by the Christians and even by his own daughter‚ His cruelty is made
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Shakespeare’s plays were in. Other popular venues were gambling dens and houses. Although the stereotypical gambler is a poor man spending his wages‚ Queen Elizabeth I did like to play these sorts of games. In the Merchant of Venice‚ some examples of gambling include: the merchant‚ Antonio‚ loans money from Shylock at the price of not returning the money‚ a pound of flesh. Portia‚ asking her would-be suitors to choose one of three caskets‚ to see which had her portrait‚ and her hand in marriage
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accomplishment‚ we can’t forgot to mention about the person himself. Based on ‚ we can say that Shakespeare has established himself as one of the greatest writers in the history of the English language. His works such as Hamlet‚Julius Caesar‚Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet‚ which are highly acknowledged to this day and is known all over world wide. Not only is Shakespeare used for entertainment purposes but as well for education and is a key part of the English Curriculum. Based from Mike
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