A New Look at the Dealings of the Bardi and Peruzzi with Edward III
重新审视14世纪佛罗伦萨最大商人银行巴尔迪和佩鲁齐的倒闭原因，质疑传统观点认为其因贷款给英王爱德华三世而亏损巨大，并指出这些公司实际缺乏如此大规模贷款的资源，同时提出他们可能通过政府账簿未记录的方式收回部分贷款。
The Bardi and Peruzzi of Florence became in the early fourteenth century the largest merchant-bankers ever seen in medieval Europe. Their collapse in the 1340s has been attributed by most historians to huge losses on loans to Edward III of England. This article explores some flaws in the conventional explanation and shows that the firms lacked the resources to have made loans on the generally accepted scale. It also suggests means by which the companies could have recovered at least part of their advances to the king without the results appearing in government ledgers.