Author: Marchioness Iris Margaret ORIGO
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
ˆThe ‰merchant of Prato
Author: Marchioness Iris Margaret ORIGO
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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The Merchant of Prato
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless evocation of the sensations, personalities, and everyday struggles of Italian life more than half a millennium in the past. “For God and Profit” is how the medieval merchant Francesco di Marco Datini headed a notebook in which he kept track of his business dealings, and these were certainly his guiding lights. Born in the 1330s in the Tuscan town of Prato, the son of a poor taverner, Datini set out at the age of fifteen for Avignon, where, over the course of the next thirty-five years, he made a fortune trading in arms, armor, artworks, wool, saffron, leather, silk, and much more. Returning home, he expanded his operations, setting up offices all across the Mediterranean, which he oversaw through an unceasing flow of correspondence. When he died, Datini asked that all his papers be preserved in his house, and in 1870 they were found, a little worm-eaten and mouse-nibbled but largely intact, in a sack under the stairs. They are one of the great records not only of medieval life but of the emergence of the modern commercial world. Drawing on this rich archive, Iris Origo offers a wonderfully vivid account of Datini’s public and private worlds. The Merchant of Prato is a masterpiece of modern narrative history.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless evocation of the sensations, personalities, and everyday struggles of Italian life more than half a millennium in the past. “For God and Profit” is how the medieval merchant Francesco di Marco Datini headed a notebook in which he kept track of his business dealings, and these were certainly his guiding lights. Born in the 1330s in the Tuscan town of Prato, the son of a poor taverner, Datini set out at the age of fifteen for Avignon, where, over the course of the next thirty-five years, he made a fortune trading in arms, armor, artworks, wool, saffron, leather, silk, and much more. Returning home, he expanded his operations, setting up offices all across the Mediterranean, which he oversaw through an unceasing flow of correspondence. When he died, Datini asked that all his papers be preserved in his house, and in 1870 they were found, a little worm-eaten and mouse-nibbled but largely intact, in a sack under the stairs. They are one of the great records not only of medieval life but of the emergence of the modern commercial world. Drawing on this rich archive, Iris Origo offers a wonderfully vivid account of Datini’s public and private worlds. The Merchant of Prato is a masterpiece of modern narrative history.
The Merchant of Prato
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
No Marketing Blurb
The Merchant of Prato
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Merchant of Prato, Francesco Di Marco Datini
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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Francesco Di Marco Datini
Author: Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788884536426
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Betrifft die Handschrift Mss.h.h.I.1, p. 289 der Burgerbibliothek Bern (Abb. 60).
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ISBN: 9788884536426
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Betrifft die Handschrift Mss.h.h.I.1, p. 289 der Burgerbibliothek Bern (Abb. 60).
Letters to Francesco Datini
Author: Margherita Datini
Publisher: Iter
ISBN: 9780772721167
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Publisher: Iter
ISBN: 9780772721167
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 431
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The Merchant of Prato
Author: Iris Origo
Publisher:
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Category : Merchants
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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Category : Merchants
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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The Merchant of Prato's Wife
Author: Ann Crabb
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119494
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The first full study of the life of Margherita Datini illuminates the role and social standing of wives in early modern Italian society
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119494
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The first full study of the life of Margherita Datini illuminates the role and social standing of wives in early modern Italian society
The Merchant of Prato, Francesco di Marco Datini
Author: Iris Origo
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Pages : 0
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