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Iris Origo.
The Merchant of Prato, Francesco di Marco Datini.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979 reprint (previously issued 1963, revised from Cape edition of 1957).
Series: Peregrine Books.
ISBN 014055033X.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury.
Size: 128x196x20mm.
Page count: 389pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, some rubs and frays at the edges and corners; pages yellowed with age; the spine is a bit curved but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking. 

This item £5.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for current edn. £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 261g.

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A study of daily life in a fourteenth-century Italian city, based on a cache of some 150,000 letters which came to light in 1870.

Contents: Years in Avignon; Prato & the cloth trade; Trade at home & abroad; Trading companies & their members; Money; Husband & wife; 'La famiglia'; The family friend; The house; The farm; Private account books; Food, drink & physic; Plague & penitence; Last years.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 8pp
Index: yes

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See also | Italy | Economic history | Letters & letter-writing |
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