I registri di entrata e uscita del convento di Santa Maria della Scala a Verona: l’attività di rendicontazione a supporto del controllo e dell’amministrazione negli enti religiosi

By analysing documentary evidences, this article shows the accounting practices adopted by S. Maria della Scala monastery in Verona during the eighteenth century. The study, in particular, is intended: a) to know and describe accountability process and protagonists; b) to identify how accounting practice changed since the establishment of the monastery, in the fourteenth century. The research shows some interesting elements of innovation in S. Maria della Scala monastery bookkeeping.