id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_cjryiy6sgbdorccfcv3ibrf5ju Sophus A. Reinert Political Economy and the Medici 2020 53 .pdf application/pdf 22279 2926 77 Keywords: Medici, wool, Florence, political economy, Selfridge collection, Giovanni Botero, Antonio Serra, Gustav von Ammannati, "L'Arte della Lana a Firenze nel Cinquecento: Crisi del settore e riposte degli operatori," Storia economica 11 [2008]: 1–39; Ammannati, "Florentine Woolen Manufacture in the Sixteenth Century: Crisis and New Entrepreneurial Strategies," Business and Economic History On-Line 7 [2009]: 1–9; Patrick Chorley, "Rascie and the Florentine Cloth Industry during the Sixteenth Century," Journal of European Economic History 32, no. by midcentury, it was precisely these "best of the best" regions that supplied the raw wool for Florentine firms.24 After the invention of the footoperated horizontal loom in the Middle Ages, production costs remained wool, the Garbo sector in Florence was dominant, at least in terms of production volume, with less than 25 percent of the total cloths produced cloths produced by the wool manufacturing firm of Raffaello di Francesco de' Medici (1531–1534). ./cache/work_cjryiy6sgbdorccfcv3ibrf5ju.pdf ./txt/work_cjryiy6sgbdorccfcv3ibrf5ju.txt