I found this one a little confusing. The language is exceptionally fragmented and well salted with Latin phrases, Pound’s tendency towards eclectic spellings and mixtures of various histories.

This one does have some of the balance sheet style musings that touch on early banking, but also many, many references to the Church and Catholicism, with ‘characters’ frequently invoking the Virgin Mary.

While mainly taking place in Renaissance Italy, there are several references to ‘fatherland’ and I don’t think I’m alone in relating that phrase to the German speaking world.