Ledgers from the Milanese bank Filippo Borromei and Company of Bruges and London have been transcribed by James Bolton and Francesco Guidi Bruscoli as part of the Borromei Research Project at Queen Mary, University of London. The ledger for Bruges, dated 1438, offers information about the financial activities of the Giustiniani family of Genoa and names Raffaello Giustiniani as the member of the family based in Bruges. This article explores the context of this new piece of evidence, which offers a fresh perspective on the potential connection between this Genoese family and the Bruges workshop of Jan van Eyck.
La mia vita e la mia mente sono piene di oggetti noti e sconosciuti, come questa scatola magica. Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov, and Freedom in Crime and Punishment Author and philosopher V.V. Zenkovsky once wrote, “The theme of freedom, as man’s ultimate essence, attains equal acuteness and unsurpassed profundity of expression in Dostoevsky.” (Knight 42). This is a powerful assertion, but in order to fully understand the.
