What was the Italian currency in Elizabethan Times?
The Italian currency in the Elizabethan era was not the lira. It was the ducket. I doubt there were newspapers then, even though their were printing presses. People bought books or pamphlets. Going back to the currency issue, I know it was duckets, because Michelangelo had a disagreement with the pope about not receiving some duckets for his work on one occassion at least. Correction: Garibaldi united Italy in 1870. Though each state still had ties with the other, to a greater or lesser extent. And most of these individual states, used the ducket as currency.
