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 | | Jardine's history focuses on gems, books, furniture, plateware, tapestries, paintings, altarpieces, maps, instruments, cloth, and spices -- and the scholars, cardinals and kings and bankers who were aggressive consumers of these most worldly goods. |
 | | As a closing point in Chapter Seven, Jardine notes that merchants had freed themselves, or were freed, from restrictive usury laws by the end of the 16th century. |
 | | Jardine concludes with a discussion of Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors, an exemplary image of the political, scientific, and religious goods overflowing in Renaissance consumer culture. |
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