Lodovico Flori's Treatise on Household Accounting for the Jesuit Order (1636): A Critical Translation

By Giuseppina Tranchina, Alan Sangster, Massimo Costa

The first English translation from 17th-century Sicilian Italian of Flori s manual on bookkeeping and accounting is an outstanding example of this genre. It introduced aligning income to expenditure and preparing balance sheets, which predicted how income and wealth are calculated today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004742484
• ISBN13: 9789004742482
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"