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The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

Name: The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Iris Origo
ISBN: 9780140172188

Iris Origo

10/12/1992
Penguin Books Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City par Iris Origo

Résumé

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.