Country life in Piedmont - Softcover

Gallenga, Antonio Carlo Napoleone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1235992047 ISBN 13: 9781235992049

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ... moral no less than mental education, to their habits of steadiness, assiduity, and regularity in business, to their extensive knowledge of men and things, their grasp of the general tendencies, fluctuations and vicissitudes of trade; their good courage and even audacity in launching into vast and sometimes hazardous operations; and, above all, to the fairness and frankness of their dealings; to their reputation, well or ill grounded, for strict uprightness and punctuality in all their transactions; to that straightforward honesty which, in commerce as well as in diplomacy, is invariably the best policy. It is painful to have to say it of the descendants of the princely merchants of Venice, Florence, and Genoa,--of the descendants of those Lombard money-lenders of Asti and Chieri, who laid the first basis of banking operations throughout Europe,--yet it is but justice to avow, that Italian men of business are rather petty mercers and pedlars than merchants,--higgling, haggling, chaffering shopkeepers, rather than high-minded dealers. Sellers and buyers are always at open war in this country, and the purchase of a gown or a filagree silver head-dress always gives rise to a skirmish between the counter-kicker at any of the shops under the portici della fiera at Turin, and the high-dressed fair customer who comes to him for her finery. It is less for the purpose of cheating, one would say, than for the pleasure of wasting time, and the chance of exercising their wit and displaying their glibness of tongue, that the Italians--last of European Christian nations--seem to find it impossible to sell at fixed prices. The sale of the meanest twopenny trifle, in ninety-nine out of a hundred shops between the Alps and the sea, is achieved by means of long diplomatic ne...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1235992047
• ISBN 13: 9781235992049
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 66