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Ezra Pound, whose economic views were as eccentric as his poetry was muscular, forthrightly declared in his Canto XLV: "by usura / nor was La Calunnia painted."
For the Love of Money Andrew McKie 2011
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"Not by usura was La Calumnia painted," declared Ezra Pound in a poem as powerful as it is historically inaccurate.
David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011
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"Not by usura was La Calumnia painted," declared Ezra Pound in a poem as powerful as it is historically inaccurate.
David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011
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"Not by usura was La Calumnia painted," declared Ezra Pound in a poem as powerful as it is historically inaccurate.
David Galenson: Art and Money in Renaissance Florence David Galenson 2011
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Para que un programa de este tipo sea viable debe de tener una tasa de recuperación mayor al 90% menos que eso está condenado al fracaso o subsistir mediante la inyección de fondos del erario público o bien mediante préstamos o donaciones de otros países (como es el caso del usura cero).
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La usura pasó de estar considerada como un pecado a ser un instrumento económico de eficacia y redistribución indispensable.
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Lambertini, R. (2003), "L'economia e la sua etica: la 'quaestio' di Gregorio da Rimini su debito ed usura," in Gregorio da Rimini.
Gregory of Rimini Schabel, Christopher 2007
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De usura, printed in 1508 and again in 1622 (see below, section 6), and a treatise on the four cardinal virtues, De quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus.
Gregory of Rimini Schabel, Christopher 2007
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The second term, usurarius, is directly related to usura, interest; and its application to Ramus was no doubt intended as a criticism, indicating that he was strutting around in borrowed finery.
Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006
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Hinc usura uorax auidumque in tempora fenus et concussa fides et
The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade John Mavrogordato
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