07-07-2016, 07:01 AM
(07-05-2016, 07:40 AM)pbrower Wrote: The Venetian traders were not industrialists..... They were not making things (typically textiles) as were the early capitalists of Florence and Flanders, whose wares they were selling for luxuries of the Near and Far East.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/txt_s/hd_txt_s.htm