03/11/2026
International meeting in Lucca (Italy) on 6th November.
We’ll talk about the Franciscan economy and the birth of mounts of piety, invented and spread by the friars with the aim of combating usury and granting pawn credit on favorable terms.
We’ll meet also fra Luca Pacioli a mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting. He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent.
Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme Ministero della Cultura Ministero del Turismo
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