Peruzzi

The Peruzzi were a Florentine banking and merchant family. In the 1330s their company traded grain and lent to Edward III of England.

The consortium collapsed in 1343 and was bankrupt by 1345, amid wars and disruption to trade that also affected the Bardi. Its monopoly on grain exports from France to central Italy had enriched it, but bankruptcy did not destroy all the family's wealth: the Peruzzi remained prominent in Florence.