The Merchant of Prato

Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City

Iris Origo

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English

Penguin
17 July 2017

Biography: historical, political & military; History; European history; Medieval history; Social & cultural history

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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.

By: Iris Origo
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 292g
ISBN: 9780241293928
ISBN 10: 0241293928
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 17 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

As a picture of the daily round in Tuscany before the dawn of the Renaissance it is a complement to The Decameron * Sunday Times * 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 * The Times *