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"Platonism", "Aristotelianism" and "Renaissancism" in Luca Pacioli's double-entry

2013

The famous Tractatus XI particularis de computis et scripturis of Luca Pacioli (1494) marked a critical passage in the history of Ragioneria because, for the first time, it has claimed an explicit co-presence of practical, technical and theoretical aspects. But, since Paciolo was primarily “mathematicus rarissimus” e “theologus insignis”, his main motivations towards the double-entry should probably be found on motivations and knowledge of metadisciplinary level, chronologically foregoing and perhaps logically pre-eminent compared to the disciplinary ones. Therefore this paper aims to investigate whether, beyond his own initiation, he has felt for this kind of writing such an interest to in…