The merchant of Prato : Francesco di Marco Datini

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The merchant of Prato : Francesco di Marco Datini

Iris Origo

(Penguin books, . Penguin history)

Penguin in association with Jonathan Cape, 1992

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The merchant of Prato : daily life in a medieval Italian city

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First published: Jonathan Cape, 1957

Published in Peregrine books, 1963

Includes bibliography (p. 347-354) and index

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Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages. In 1870 the whole astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. The Marchesa Origo has drawn on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance.

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