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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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The Merchant of Prato, Iris Origo
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- Released
- 1992
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- Subtitle
- Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Iris Origo
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0140172181
- ISBN13
- 9780140172188
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Southern Europe, Italy, Middle Ages, History of Europe
- Original title
- The merchant of Prato
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.