Here too it may be mentioned that Villani reckons the beggars of Florence at 17,000, with the addition of 4,000 paupers and sick persons and religious mendicants.[2] These mendicants were not all Florentines, but received relief from the city charities.
The big wool factories are numbered at upwards of two hundred; and it is calculated that from sixty to eighty thousand pieces of cloth were turned out yearly, to the value in all of about 1,200,000 florins.

More than 30,000 persons lived by this industry.

The _calimala_ factories, where foreign cloths were manufactured into fine materials, numbered about twenty.

These imported some 10,000 pieces of cloth yearly, to the value of 300,000 florins.

The exchange offices are estimated at about eighty in number.