num_pages: 384
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
titlecomplete: The Merchant of Prato
genres: 14th Century, Medieval History, Nonfiction, Italian Literature, History, Italy, European History, Historical, Medieval, Biography
ratings_count: 285
places: Italy, Tuscany
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)