Acknowledgments Introduction Susanna Barsella, William Caferro, and Germano Maifreda Part I - The Context: A Network of Diversities Revising a Paradigm: Florence, Capitalism, and International Trade William Caferro Florentine Merchants and Texts in Translation (c. 1460-75) Laura Ingallinella Coordinating Color across the Medieval Mediterranean: Dyestuffs and their Exchange in an Era of Growth (c.1000-1350) Stephanie Leitzel Swallowed by the Leviathan: Transmission and Transformation of Italian Public Banks in the Spanish Empire, XV-XVI cc. Sama Mammadova Baldassare Degli Embriachi, World Maps, and Trade Networks Joanne Morice Transgressing Periphery, Dressing Otherness: Locating Geo-Cultural Spaces of Diversity in the Medieval Mediterranean Roberta Morosini Global Exchange, Then and Now: The Digital Discovery of Dati's La Sfera Laura Morreale Part II - Cultures of Exchange and their Discontents Dante and the Merchants: A Portrait of Ambivalence Teodolinda Barolini Practical Mathematical Knowledge and Economic Dynamics in the Italian South Maria Teresa De Luca Allegorical Economies: Fortune, Reason, and the Cultures of Exchange in Late Medieval France and Italy Filippo Petricca Born under Mercury: God's Influence on the Future Perspective of the Medieval Italian Merchant Nicolò Zennaro Part III - Money and Wealth The Importance of Coins: Messer Torello's Story by Master of Charles of Durazzo Elsa Filosa Between the Decameron and the Bill of Exchange: New Insights on Medieval Merchants' Notebooks Stefano Locatelli For the Salvation of His Soul? The Merchant Marco Carelli and His Fabulous Donation Martina Saltamacchia Part IV - The Ethics of Exchange Tracing Representations of Domestic Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Italy Beatrice Arduini Translating Moral Economy: Vernacular, Scholastic Thought and Mercantile Culture Giovanni Ceccarelli The Treatment of Piracy and Robbery in the Decameron Alessandro Ceteroni Part V - Society, and the Politics of Exchange Dante and Production/Dante and Wealth/Boccaccio and Mercantile Ethics Susanna Barsella The Representation of Political Economy in Venetian Chronicles c. 1300-c. 1500 Giorgio Lizzul Jewish Women's Agency in Premodern Trade: Evidences from an (Infamous) Inquisitorial Trial (Trent, 1475-76) Germano Maifreda A Money-changer as Would-be Noble in Medieval Venice Alan M. Stahl An Ottoman-Venetian Merchant in the Sultan's Service: Alvise Gritti (c. 1480-1534) and the Competing Ottoman-Habsburg Universalisms in the Early Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean Ebru Turan.