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Economia - Commercio - Scaruffi, Gasparo
The Alitinonfo to make reason and concordance of gold and silver, which will serve universally, both to provide for the infinite abuses of shearing and spoiling coins, as well as to regulate all sorts of payments, and also reduce the whole world to a single coin, 1582
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Reggio, Hercolano Bartoli, 1582. In 2nd. 2 parts in one vol. Beautiful allegorical frontispiece engraved on copper and signed Regii Lomb. F., initials and woodcut friezes, wood-engraved illustration in the text depicting a gold and silver coin at c. D1r, woodblock mark representing S. Prospero on the title page of the second part ( Brief instruction above the speech made by mag. M. Gasparo Scaruffi, to regulate the affairs of money), & nbsp; 2 blank papers missing , one after the dedicatory (* 6) and the other at the end, after the Register (L6), restorations that sometimes affect the mirror of the text, slight reddening and blooms, several water gore, last slightly burnished paper, binding of later period in rigid parchment, author and title imprinted in gold on the spine with 4 nerves.
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Rare. First and only edition of one of the most complete and advanced treatises on monetary issues of the century. XVI by the economist Gasparo Scaruffi (Reggio Emilia 1519-1584). This is the first work in which a theory is expressed in favor of a universal monetary system and therefore of a single currency. In this way all transactions would have been more transparent, hence the name Alitinonfo, from the Greek “true light”. Scaruffi, a merchant who had numerous public offices, developed a monetary reform based on a bimetallic, gold and silver system and, adhering to the needs of the financial bourgeoisie and in order to avoid many counterfeits, proposed the imperial lira as the only currency and unit of measurement. to which the currencies of the various states would have had to relate respecting the natural proportion between gold and silver (1 to 12). In this way, the coin of one ounce of gold would have had as submultiples 12 ounces of silver coins and 1440 of copper coins. & Nbsp;
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