The author explains the motivation for writing this textbook:[1] I have often been asked by certain youths in whom I have much interest, and who look forward to mercantile pursuits, to put into writing the fundamental principles of arithmetic, commonly called abacus.The Treviso Arithmetic is the earliest known printed mathematics book in the West, and one of the first printed European textbooks dealing with a science.
David Eugene Smith translated parts of the Treviso Arithmetic for educational purposes in 1907.
Frank J. Swetz translated the complete work using Smith's notes in 1987 in his Capitalism & Arithmetic: The New Math of the 15th Century.
The Treviso Arithmetic is a practical book intended for self study and for use in Venetian trade.
It helped to end the monopoly on mathematical knowledge and gave important information to the middle class.