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In a dramatic moment of her history, Florence, or rather the ruling class composed essentially by businessmen, decided in the summer 1342 to give herself to the power of Walter of Brienne, duke of Athens. The French-Apulian baron, linked to the Angevins of Naples, and so to the Guelph international alliance, should guarantee the political and economic interests of the Florentine merchant community, putting an end to the war against Pisa and reopening for Florence the essential access to the sea. About this diplomatic affair and, first of all, about its financial implications an exceptional witness is provided by the documentary evidences of Bartolo di Neri da Ruffiano. The Florentine notary collected sworn commitment to pay thousands of florins by 112 mercantile, banking and textiles companies.

Il saggio si propone di analizzare un fenomeno chiave nella storia economica della Firenze trecentesca: il primo sviluppo dell'industria della seta. La nascita di questa manifattura è dovuta all'immigrazione di imprenditori, maestranze e salariati di origine lucchese, come nel ben noto caso veneziano. Il contributo lucchese, dovuto ai numerosi esuli politici di orientamento guelfo, è indagato attraverso una eccezionale e pressoché sconosciuta fonte notarile fiorentina: i numerosi rogiti di Michele di Salvestro Contadini, notaio attivo dal 1324 al 1381, per molti anni in servizio presso l'Arte della seta o di Por Santa Maria. ; The essay aims to analyse a key phenomenon in XIVth Florence economic history: the first development of silk industry. This manufacture owes its start-up to the immigration of entrepreneurs, craftsmen and workers from Lucca, as in the well-studied Venetian case. The Lucchese contribution, due to many political exiles of Guelph tendency, is examined through an exceptional and practically unknown Florentine notarial source: the countless deeds of Michele di Salvestro Contadini, notary working from 1324 to 1381, for many years on duty with the silk guild of Por Santa Maria.