Gondi-Medici Business Records in the Lea Library of the University of Pennsylvania

1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Rudolf Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Business History ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Entire Group ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Detailed List ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
The University

This summary description of 143 recently acquired Italian Renaissance manuscripts is not a detailed list nor an evaluation of the collection. An evaluation would require considerably greater familiarity with the business history of Florence than this reporter possesses.According to the limited information available, the entire group of these business records originally formed part of the Gondi archives, described by Roberto Ridolfi in Gli archivi delle famiglie fiorentine. More specifically it belonged to that part of the Gondi archives which was left by the sisters Caterina (b. 1694) and Elisabetta (b. 1693), descendants of Giuliano il Vecchio, to the Ritiro della Quiete in Florence. Ridolfi refers rather briefly to the commercial papers then in the Ritiro, but fails to explain how they came to include so few Gondi and so many Medici and Amadori volumes.

History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940.

1942 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
Robert E. Spiller ◽  
Edward Potts Cheyney ◽  
Cornell M. Dowlin ◽  
Agnes Addison
Keyword(s):  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

New nurses, new spaces: a preview of the AACN History Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
JE Lynaugh ◽  
J Fairman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Social History ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Critical Care Nursing ◽  
New Nurses ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This article previews selected findings of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses History Project that is being conducted under the auspices of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Using methods of social history research, we reviewed pertinent literature, studied documents of institutions and organizations, and interviewed a broad array of participants. Analysis of this evidence resulted in a history of the evolution of nursing and hospital care for patients with life-threatening illnesses during the 40-year period since 1950. We explored the effects of changing public and professional ideas about the nature of critical illness, the effects of technology, and the historical dimensions of critical care nursing. Special attention was given to the events and circumstances that led to the development of AACN and the reciprocal relationships between AACN and the care of critically ill people.

Influences of New England Law on the Middle Colonies

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
George L. Haskins
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
The World ◽  
Middle Colonies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University

On October 3, 1881, William Henry Rawle, the distinguished Philadelphia lawyer and scholar, addressed students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School hoping to illustrate, ‘in a very general and elementary way,’ the differences between the growth of English and early Pennsylvania jurisprudence. ‘It would have been more interesting and more broadly useful,’ Rawle apologized to his audience, ‘if the attempt could have been extended to embrace the other colonies which afterwards became the United States, for there would have been not only the contrast between the mother country and her colonies, but the contrast between the colonies themselves.’ Rawle was confident that such an examination would have revealed how ‘in some cases, one colony followed or imitated another in its alteration of the law which each had brought over, and how, in others, the law was changed in one colony to suit its needs, all unconscious of similar changes in another.’ ‘Unhappily,’ Rawle explained, ‘this must be the History of the Future for the materials have as yet been sparingly given to the world.’

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