The Merchant of Prato's Wife : Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423 /

The Merchant of Prato's Wife : Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423 /

"Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita's correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, incl...

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Main Author: Crabb, Ann, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Datini, Francesco, > 1335-1410.
Datini, Margherita > Correspondence.
Datini, Margherita > Marriage.
Datini, Margherita.
To 1500
Letter writing > Italy > Florence > History > To 1500.
Wives > Italy > Florence > Biography.
Women > Italy > Florence > Biography.
Florence (Italy) > Biography.
Florence (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Florence (Italy) > History > To 1421.
Biographies.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Avignon, 1374-82
  • Back in Italy, 1383-86
  • Coping with illegitimacy
  • Setting for a domestic partnership, 1394-98
  • Prato, 1389-98: household, farming, building
  • Dictating letters and accounts, collecting loans
  • The family in Prato
  • Contacts and friends
  • Political maneuvers
  • From partial literacy to full literacy
  • Margherita and her relatives
  • Margherita and Francesco, 1400-1410
  • The widow, 1410-23
  • Appendix: Cast of characters.

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