The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City by Iris Origo

The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

Iris Origo

400 pages first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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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, containin...

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