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Renaissance ideal of a well-rounded education impacting professional practice. His work not only shows the application of humanist learning to
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Cotrugli's "Book of the Art of Trade" is noted as potentially being a 15th-century counterpart to modern texts on deal-making.
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B.Cotrugli, "Arricchirsi con onore", edited by
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Ferguson, Niall. "The Square and The Tower: Networks and Power, from the
Freemasons to Facebook." Penguin Books, 2017
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is followed by an appendix containing an inventory and many journal entries. It contains an early description of the
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