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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MONTI DI PIETÀ.) Provvisione et Decreto sopra l'Erezione d'un Nuovo Monte di Pietà. [4] leaves. Florence: Stamperia di S.A.S., 1645 * Bolle, Brievi, e Proviggioni per il Governo del Sagro Monte di Pietà di Bologna. 155, [1] pages. Bologna: Clemente Maria Sassi, 1726 * Riforma del Monte della Pietà. 29 pages; lacks final blank. Siena: F. Rossi, 1751 * Statuti del Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma rinnovati nell'Anno MDCCLXVII. xii, [4], 219 pages. Rome: Stamperia Ermateniana, [1767] * Sacco, Filippo Carlo. Dei Monti di Pietà in Generale, del Sacro Monte di Pietà della Città di Bologna, Dissertazioni Due con la Serie Cronologica de' Signori Presidenti allo stesso Monte dall' anno 1561 sino al corrente 1775. Engraved frontispiece. 196 pages. Bologna: Longhi, 1775. Together, 4 volumes. Various formats, various bindings, condition varies considerably, with contents heavily dampstained. Vp, 1645-1775
The Monti di Pietà were pawnbroking and savings-and-loan institutions dating from the 15th century in Italy, "considered as the predecessors of the modern credit union . . . The formation of the monti was the result of a combination of factors, both economic and theological. It arose from the decline of handicrafts and the ensuing impoverishment of the masses, and a scarcity of money; and from the desire to oust the Jews from the business of moneylending, which they had successfully practiced as their principal profession . . . The decision of the Lateran Council of 1515 to allow urbi et orbi the establishment of monti was the signal for setting up official lending institutions sponsored by governments in the Catholic countries of Europe"--EJ XII, 279-80.
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