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The Merchant of Prato
- Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Engelsk Paperback

The Merchant of Prato

- Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Engelsk Paperback

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This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century.

Drawing on an astonishing cache of letters unearthed centuries after Datini''s death, it reveals to us a shrewd, enterprising, anxious man, as he makes deals, furnishes his sumptuous house, buys silks for his outspoken young wife and broods on his legacy. It is an unequalled source of knowledge about the texture of daily life in the small, earthy, violent, striving world of fourteenth-century Tuscany.

''Datini has now probably become most intimately accessible figure of the later Middle Ages ... brilliant and intricate'' The Times

''As a picture of Tuscany before the dawn of the Renaissance it is a complement to The Decameron'' Sunday Times





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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780241293928
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0241293928
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Udg. Dato:
4 maj 2017
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
199mm
Forlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
4 maj 2017
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