- Published: 17 July 2017
- ISBN: 9780241293928
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $24.99
The Merchant of Prato
Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
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- Published: 17 July 2017
- ISBN: 9780241293928
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $24.99
Francesco di Marco Datini, the fourteenth-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of Origo's brilliant study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figures of the later Middle Ages ... paints, in brilliant and intricate detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance
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As a picture of the daily round in Tuscany before the dawn of the Renaissance it is a complement to The Decameron
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