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- noun A type of
inn , especially as the residence of amerchant ortrader ; a trading post.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1100 they returned from Jerusalem, their merchants having gained, _una loggia, una contrada, un fondaco e una chiesa_ for their nation in Constantinople, with many other fiscal benefits.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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John Marignolli mentions a _fondaco_ for the use of Christian merchants, which was attached to one of the Franciscan convents at Zaiton.
Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914
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Much of the work on which Giorgione's immediate fame depended, work done for instantaneous effect, in all probability passed away almost within his own age, like the frescoes on the facade of the fondaco dei Tedeschi at Venice, some crimson traces of which, however, still give a strange additional touch of splendour to the scene of the Rialto.
The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866
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Much of the work on which Giorgione's immediate fame depended, work done for instantaneous effect, in all probability passed away almost within his own age, like the frescoes on the façade of the fondaco dei
The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866
chained_bear commented on the word fondaco
Historical note re: origins can be found in comment on fonduq. More on fondaci (plural).
November 28, 2017