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[00:03.32]The most fertile soil for such financial seeds proved to be the Italian city states
[00:09.60]Fibonacci's hometown of Pisa was one
[00:13.03]But it was above all Venice, more exposed than any of the others to oriental influences
[00:18.80]that became the great money-lending laboratory
[00:25.33]and the home of literature's most notorious moneylender
[00:31.18]Shylock, in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
[00:35.76](此段对话出自《威尼斯商人》第一幕第三场)
[00:38.55]May you stead me? Will you pleasure me? Shall I know your answer?
[00:46.68]Crucially, Shylock's only prepared to lend the money if Bassanio's friend, the merchant Antonio, is providing the security
[00:56.23]3,000 ducats for three months and Antonio bound
[01:02.09]Your answer to that
[01:03.72]Antonio is a good man
[01:08.17]By good, Shylock doesn't mean virtuous, he means good for the money he's about to lend Bassanio
[01:14.03]In other words, creditworthy
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