num_pages: 400
description: Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages. In 1870 the whole astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. The Marchesa Origo has drawn on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance.
language: English
title: The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
titlecomplete: The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
genres: Historical, Biography, Italy, Medieval History, European History, 14th Century, Nonfiction, Medieval, Italian Literature, History
ratings_count: 285
places: Tuscany, Italy
publisher: Penguin UK