A Bibliography of Melis’ Works by Giovanni Padroni as translated by Alvaro Martinelli
History of Bookkeeping. Contribution to the Knowledge and Inter-pretation of the Most Significant Sources of Economic History, Bologna. C. Zuffi, 1950, (792 pages).
“About Some Endorsements of Bills of Exchange Found in Flor¬ence from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century,” Moneta a Credito. XXI (1953), pp. 96-120.
“About a Double Endorsement on Coupon, of which One to the Bearer, Toward the First Half of the Sixteenth Century,” Nuova Rivista di Diritto Commerciale, Diritto dell’ Economia e Diritto Sociale, VI (1953), Part II, Practical Section, pp. 9-12.
“The Transatlantic Commerce of a Florentine Company Estab¬lished in Seville a Few Years After the Exploits of Cortes and Pizarro,” Fernando el Catolico e Italia, Fifth Congress on the History of the Crown of Aragon, Study Ill, Saragossa, Institute “Fernando el Catolico.” 1954, pp. 129-206.
“Costs Accumulation in the Wool Industry at the End of the Fourteenth Century,” Economia e Storia, I (1954), pp. 31-60 and 150-190.
Notes on the History of the Bank in Pisa in the Fourteenth Century, Pisa, Societa Storica Pisana, 1955. (246 pages).
“Malaga in the Economic System of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Economia e Storia, Ill (1956), pp. 19-39 and 139-163.
“Italian Merchant-Entrepreneurs in Flanders at the End of the Fourteenth Century,” Economia e Storia, V (1958), pp. 114-161.
“An Endorsement of a Bill of Exchange in 1410 in the Datini Archives of Prato,” Economia e Storia, V (1958), pp. 412-421.
“A Look at the Market of Woolen Cloths in Pisa During the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century,” Economia e Storia, VI (1959), pp. 321-365 .
“In Reference to a New Book on the ‘Merchant of Prato,'” Economia e Storia, VI (1959), pp. 737-763.
“The Situation of the Merchant Navy at the, Beginning of the Era of Henry the Navigator: Economic and Technical Factors of Develop¬ment,” Proceedings of the International Congress of the History of Discoveries, V (Part I, 1961), Lisbon, pp. 451-459.
Aspects of Medieval Economic Life, Studies in the Datini Archives of Prato, Vol. I, Siena, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, 1962, (729 pages, illustrated with 100 tables.)
Pistoia in the Golden Centuries of its Economy, Pistoia, Chamber of Commerce, 1962, (32 pages).
“The Diffusion in the Western Mediterranean of the Cloths of Werwicq and Other Cities of the Lvs River During the Fifteenth Century,” Studies in Honour of Amintore Fanfani, Vol. Ill, Milan, A. Giuffre, 1962, pp. 219-243.
“Werner Sombart and the Problems of Shipping in the Middle Ages,” The Work of Werner Sombart in the Centennial of his Birth, Milan, A. Giuffre, 1964, pp. 87-149.
“Florence,” Cities, Merchants, Doctrines in the European Economy from the Fourth Century to the Eighteenth Century, Essays in Mem¬ory of Gino Luztatto, Milan, A. Giuffre, 1964, pp. 107-150.
“Florence and its Communications with the Sea in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Atti e Mercature, XIX (1964), pp. 3-16.
“Descriptive List of European Ports According to a Florentine Manuscript at the End of the Fourteenth Century, Proceedings of the Fifth International Colloquium of Maritime History, Paris, 1966, pp, 261-268.
“The Economic Life of Florence in the Times of Dante,” Pro-ceedings of the International Congress of Dantesque Studies, Vol. II, Florence, G. C. Sansoni, 1966, pp. 99-128.
“Commercial Partnerships and Companies in the East and in the Indian Ocean,” lnternational Congress of Maritime History, Anuario de Estudios Medievales. No. 3, Barcelona, 1966, pp. 761-770.
“Bruges, Economic Link Between Latin Peoples and German Peoples (XIVth and XVth Centuries),” Proceedings of the Belgian Academy of Rome, Conference held on the 10th of May, 1967.
“The Consumption of Wine in Florence in the Decennia Around 1400,” Arti e Mercature, IV (1967), pp. 6-33.
Traces of a General Economic History of Florence and Tuscany from 1252 to 1550, Florence, 1967, (290 pages).
“Lazzaro Bracci. The Function of Arezzo in the Economy of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.” Proceedings and Memoirs of the Petrarca Academy of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Arezzo, XXXVIII (1965-67), pp. 3-20.
“The Tuscan Participation in the Navigation of the Atlantic,” Anuario de Estudios Americanos, XXV (1963), Seville, pp. 281-293.
“How to Drink Wine with Various Foods,” Agricoltura delle Venezie, XXlll (No. 2, 1969), pp. 137-160.
The Drainage of the Versilia Region in 1559,” Proceedings of the Economic-Agrarian Academy of the Patrons of Agriculture, XV (1969), Seventh Series, pp. 3-15.
“Was Florence a Maritime Power?” Rivista del Diritto della Navigazione, 1-11 (1969), pp. 111-124.
“Economic and Commercial Aspects of Tuscan Agricultural Prod¬ucts and Wines in Relation to Their World Trade (XIVth-XVlth Cen¬turies),” Proceedings of the Italian Academy of Cookery, Siena, 1969, pp. 19-48.
“Notes on the Movement of Shipping in the Port of Bevrouth According to Florentine Documents Around 1400,” Proceedings of the Eighth International Colloquium of Maritime History (Beirut, 1966), Paris, 1970, pp. 371-373.
“Conclusion and Synthesis of Section I: Ancient Times and Middle Ages,” Proceedings of the Eighth International Colloquium of Mari¬time History (Beirut, 1966), Paris, 1970, pp. 703-715.
“A Gleam of Light on the Financing of the First Voyage of Giovanni da Verrazzano,” Commemorative Days of Giovanni da Verrazzano (Florence and Greve in Chianti, 1961), Florence, 1970, pp. 45-54.
“Name of Origin of Medieval Wines in the Countryside Round Pistoia,” Pistoia Programma, V (1970), pp. 4-8.
“Economic Factors in the Development of Shipping at the End of the Fourteenth Century,” Mediterraneo e Oceano Indiano, Pro-ceedings of the Sixth International Colloquium of Maritime History (Venice, 1962), Florence, 1970, pp. 99-105.
“Movement of Peoples and Economic Motives in the Jubilee of 1400,” Miscellanea Gilles Gerard Meersseman (Italia Sacra, 15-16), Padua, (1970), pp. 343-367.
“Origines of the Modern Bank,” Moneta y Credito, CXVl (1971), Madrid, pp. 3-18.
“The Economic Civilization in its Development from the Versilia Region of the Maremma Region. Xth-XVllth Centuries,” Proceedings of the Sixtieth International Congress of the Dante Alighieri Society (Leghorn, September 14, 1970), Rome, 1971, pp. 21-53.
“Consideration of Some Aspects of the Rise of Capitalist Enter-prise,” Studies in Economics and Economic History in Honour of Prof. H. M. Robertson, Cape Town, 1971, pp. 153-1238.
Documents for the Economic History of the Xlllth-XVlth Centuries, With a Note of Commercial Paleography by Elena Cecchi, Florence, Leo Olschki, 1972, (698 pages).
“Transpeninsular Communication Lines with Venice during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” Economia e Storia (1 972), pp. 157-174 .
“Notes on the History of Olive Oil (XIVth-XVlth Centuries),” Dell’ Olivo e della Sua Cultura, Florence, 1972, pp. 11-21.
Origin and Development of Insurance in ltaly (XIVth-XVlth Cen¬turies), Vol. I, lstituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni, Rome, 1975, (320 pages).
“Production and Commerce of Italian Wines (with Particular Em¬phasis on Tuscany) in the Xlllth-XVllth Centuries,” to be published in Annales Cisalpines.
(Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 6, 7, 2, 1976)