The Merchant of Prato

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The Merchant of Prato
Folio Society
Biography & True Stories

The Merchant of Prato

Iris Origo
Edition year 1984
Binding Cloth
Weight 1.5 Kg
Pages 378
Dimensions 25.3 × 16.3 cm

Edition details

The Merchant of Prato, by Iris Origo. 12 leaves of medieval illuminations and paintings in colour. Bound in dark red cloth decorated in black and gold. Colour-printed endleaves. Mottled grey slipcase. 25.3x16.3cm. 378pp.

About the book

The Merchant of Prato by Iris Origo reconstructs the life and world of Francesco di Marco Datini, a successful merchant who lived in Italy during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Drawing on an extraordinary surviving archive of letters, business papers and household records, Origo creates a detailed portrait of medieval commercial and domestic life. Through Datini's experiences, the book explores trade, banking, marriage, religion, family relationships and the practical concerns of everyday existence. The result is both an engaging biography and a remarkably intimate social history of late medieval Tuscany.

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