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The Following Is an Excerpt from the Florentine Merchant and Historian

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The following is an excerpt from the Florentine merchant and historian Benedetto Dei's description of his home city: "Our beautiful Florence contains within the city in this present year two hundred seventy shops belonging to the wool merchants' guild . . . eighty-three rich and splendid warehouses of the silk merchants' guild. . . . The number of banks amounts to thirty-three; the shops of the cabinet-makers, whose business is carving and inlaid work, to eighty-four . . . there are forty-four goldsmiths' and jewellers' shops."
What does this passage suggest about Florence?


A) That Florentines were uncomfortable with borrowing and lending money at interest
B) That the pottery industry was very important to the city
C) That the city's economy was built around agriculture
D) That there was high demand for luxury items in the city

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