The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini, 1335-1410

by Nicholl, Charles
ISBN: 9781681374208
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A warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless evocation of the sensations, personalities, and everyday struggles of Italian life more than half a millennium in the past.

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of the medieval Italian merchant Francesco di Marco Datini is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century. Drawing on an astonishing cache of some 150,000 letters unearthed centuries after Datini's death, The Merchant of Prato reveals a shrewd, enterprising, anxious man as he makes deals, furnishes his sumptuous house, buys silks for his outspoken young wife, and broods on his legacy. It is an unequaled source of knowledge about the texture of daily life in the small, earthy, violent, striving world of fourteenth-century Tuscany.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Nicholl, Charles
  • ISBN: 9781681374208
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.80
  • Number Of Pages: 416
  • Publication Year: 2020