by Carlo M. Cipolla · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420607146
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«Tres historias extravagantes» is a book of historical short stories by Carlo M. Cipolla, published by Alianza in paperback (112 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together three true stories told with irony: the desacralizing review of the Florentine banking family Bardi in the fourteenth century, a joke Europeans played on the Turks in the seventeenth, and a survey of two French commercial treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Cipolla combines historical erudition with humour and offers little-known episodes, far from academic solemnity.
Work by the Italian economic historian Carlo M. Cipolla, translated by José Luis Gil Aristu; the original Italian title is «Tre storie extra vaganti». Published by Alianza in 1995.
For readers of historical popularisation who appreciate cultured humour and short stories with a documentary basis.
Carlo Maria Cipolla was an Italian economic historian. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
