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May 2019
14m 52s

Minisode: Banking

Wondery / Patrick Wyman
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We catch up a bit more on Jakob Fugger's personality - or lack thereof - along with some of the other important south German trading firms of the age, the development of the Antwerp financial market, and the connection between banking and the patronage of Renaissance art.

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