Pisa conference is major success

              The Accounting Historians
NOTE BOOK
Vol 7, No. 2 ©Academy of Accounting Historians Fall, 1984
PISA CONFERENCE IS MAJOR SUCCESS
Over 100 accounting historians from
eighteen countries around the world met
together at the University of Pisa (Italy)
from August 23 through 27, 1984. This
Fourth International Congress was a
scholarly success in the same way that the
forerunner Congresses in Brussels (1970),
Atlanta (1976), and London (1980) had
been. Indeed, any accounting history
conference held at the University where
Luca Pacioli once taught would have to be
a memorable one. Professor Tito Antoni
of the University of Pisa put together a
program of nearly 50 papers on accounting
history topics. A list of the papers
presented at the Congress appears
elsewhere in this issue of The Notebook.
The opening ceremony featured
welcoming speeches by the mayor of Pisa
and the president of the University.
Following the opening ceremony,
delegates were escorted to an exhibit
featuring rare accounting books. The
earliest book was a thirteenth century
volume authored by Leonardo Fibonacci
(better known in the English speaking
world as Leonardo of Pisa). Leonardo is
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