The Merchant Of Prato
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, consistent with age. Markings: Previous owner inscription to FEP and faded mark to board from previous sticker.. Binding: Appears intact and solid.
A landmark work of medieval biography and social history, The Merchant of Prato reconstructs the remarkable life of Francesco di Marco Datini, a fourteenth-century Italian merchant whose vast personal archive of letters, ledgers, and documents survived intact for centuries. Iris Origo draws on this extraordinary cache of primary sources to paint a vivid and intimate portrait of late medieval commerce, family life, and society in Tuscany. With the precision of a historian and the craft of a storyteller, Origo chronicles Datini's rise from modest origins to great wealth, illuminating the anxieties, ambitions, and relationships that defined his world. The book presents a richly textured picture of the medieval Italian merchant class, capturing the tensions between religious devotion and the pursuit of profit that characterised the age. Authoritative, meticulous, and deeply humane, this remains one of the finest examples of narrative history written in the twentieth century.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, consistent with age. Markings: Previous owner inscription to FEP and faded mark to board from previous sticker.. Binding: Appears intact and solid.
A landmark work of medieval biography and social history, The Merchant of Prato reconstructs the remarkable life of Francesco di Marco Datini, a fourteenth-century Italian merchant whose vast personal archive of letters, ledgers, and documents survived intact for centuries. Iris Origo draws on this extraordinary cache of primary sources to paint a vivid and intimate portrait of late medieval commerce, family life, and society in Tuscany. With the precision of a historian and the craft of a storyteller, Origo chronicles Datini's rise from modest origins to great wealth, illuminating the anxieties, ambitions, and relationships that defined his world. The book presents a richly textured picture of the medieval Italian merchant class, capturing the tensions between religious devotion and the pursuit of profit that characterised the age. Authoritative, meticulous, and deeply humane, this remains one of the finest examples of narrative history written in the twentieth century.
