num_pages: 458
description: Datini, a fourteenth-century Florentine merchant banker, provides us with one of the great success stories of the Middle Ages. He left behind the entire archive of his business - over 150,000 letters, some 500 ledgers and accounts books, and a mass of personal and business documents that Iris Origo tracked down, translated, selected, and made accessible to the modern reader in this award-winning and singular biography.
language: English
title: The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini, 1335-1410
titlecomplete: The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini, 1335-1410
genres: Historical, Biography, Italy, Medieval History, European History, 14th Century, Nonfiction, Medieval, Italian Literature, History
ratings_count: 285
places: Tuscany, Italy
publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher