Cover art for The Merchant of Prato
Published
Penguin Classics, July 2017
ISBN
9780241293928
Format
Softcover, 400 pages
Dimensions
19.6cm × 13cm × 2.6cm

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

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Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant

In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the central subject of Iris Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later Middle Ages. The book is rightly celebrated as one of the most engrossing of all modern books on Italian life and history.

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