Florentine merchant Francesco Datini begins ledgers
1364
From a Prato house the merchant would keep an obsessive archive of letters, accounts, and contracts that would survive as medieval Europe's richest commercial record, comprising some one hundred fifty thousand documents. His motto, 'in the name of God and of profit,' neatly captured the spiritual dilemma of a commercial class that needed both.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.