Pegolotti merchant handbook pdf

The'road'you'travel'fromTana'to'Cathay'is'perfectly'safe,'whether'by'day'or'by' night,'according'to'what'the'merchants'say Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, (flourished 1315-40, Florence [Italy]), Florentine mercantile agent best known as the author of the Pratica della mercatura ("Practice of Marketing"), which provides an excellent picture of trade and travel in his day. Pegolotti was a commercial agent in the service of the mercantile house of the wealthy and powerful Bardi family of Florence, and he visited Pegolotti's Merchant Handbook First published in the eighteenth century from a manuscript copied in 1471, the Pratica della Mercatura provides important evidence regarding the Eurasian trade ca. 1340, during the period when the "Golden Horde" (the western part of the Mongol Empire) was at its height. This handbook, first issued in 1942, is designed to be used as a textbook or a study guide for the "hawsepiper." The twenty-five chapters contain information on electronics, celestial navigation, rules of the road, engineering, etc., --that will be helpful to the third mate, experienced mariner, or student preparing for a licensing examination.