Podczaski (aside).He is a manI have a hundred florins in my pocket already.

In the course of the evidence one of the witnesses, a goldsmith, deposed to having received from Gutenberg three or four years previouslythat is, about 1435upward of three hundred florins for materials used in printing.

Bruges alone sold annually to the amount of four million florins of stuffs of Spanish, and as much of English, wool; and the least value of the florin then was quadruple its present worth.

She is an aristocrat and she refuses a hundred florins to a nobleman.

Among them was a monopoly in the supply of fish from Perugia to Florence, a privilege which put, upon the average, a good six hundred gold florins per annum into Messer Sforza's pocket!

When he died, Giovanni was buried in its precincts, while his son Cosimo de' Medici, the father of his country, continued these benevolences, and bestowed a capital of 40,000 golden florins on the Chapter.

If I lose a thousand florins by the operation, I shall know how to be resigned.

Her miniatures were so highly esteemed that Peter the Great offered her a salary of six thousand florins as his court painter; and Frederick William of Prussia invited her to his court, but nothing could tempt her away from her home in Amsterdam.

He distributed altogether in charity and churches four hundred thousand of those golden coins which were invented by Florence and named florins after hera sum equal to a million pounds of to-day.

3d.borrowed 100 florins from me, his purse being at so low an ebb.