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The Merchant of Prato

Author : Iris Origo
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374218
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato written by Iris Origo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9780140550337
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato written by Iris Origo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1963 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Merchant of Prato's Wife

Author : Ann Crabb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119494
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato's Wife written by Ann Crabb and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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The Merchant of Prato, Francesco Di Marco Datini

Author : Iris Origo
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 389 pages
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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato, Francesco Di Marco Datini written by Iris Origo and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters to Francesco Datini

Author : Margherita Datini
Publisher : Iter
ISBN 13 : 9780772721167
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Letters to Francesco Datini written by Margherita Datini and published by Iter. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Merchant of Prato

Author : Iris Origo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato written by Iris Origo and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Francesco Di Marco Datini

Author : Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788884536426
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Francesco Di Marco Datini written by Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrifft die Handschrift Mss.h.h.I.1, p. 289 der Burgerbibliothek Bern (Abb. 60).

The Merchant of Prato

Author : Iris Origo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato written by Iris Origo and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merchant Cultures

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004506578
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Merchant Cultures written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way merchants trade, think about business and represent commerce in art forms define merchant culture. The world between 1500 and 1800 encompassed different merchant cultures that stood alone and in contact with others. Culture, power relations and institutions framed similarities and differences and outlined the global outcome of these exchanges.

Making Big Money in 1600

Author : Nelly Hanna
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815627494
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Making Big Money in 1600 written by Nelly Hanna and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelly Hanna's work challenges the standard perceptions about Middle East society and economy of the seventeenth century. Both novel in its approach and information, this book's central theme revolves around the rise of an indigenous form of capitalism existing as early as the 1600s. Making Big Money in 1600 examines the reemergence of the economic sector and its complex influences on social conditions during this time. By examining the life and work of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya, Hanna traces the relationship between economic activities and culture. As we are introduced to Abu Taqiyya we learn how he negotiates partnership with other merchants, arranges for the handling of goods, and negotiates loans for colleagues. Hanna reveals his home life, his wives, children, and concubines, his relations with his family and friends, and how these relations evolved and were affected by the changing social and economic conditions-a perspective rarely discussed in works before the modern period.

Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271048307
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even many Renaissance specialists believe that little secular painting survives before the late fifteenth century, and its appearance becomes a further argument for the secularizing of art. This book asks how history changes when a longer record of secular art is explored. It is the first study in any language of the decoration of Italian palaces and homes between 1300 and the mid-Quattrocento, and it argues that early secular painting was crucial to the development of modern ideas of art. Of the cycles discussed, some have been studied and published, but most are essentially unknown. A first aim is to enrich our understanding of the early Renaissance by introducing a whole corpus of secular painting that has been too long overlooked. Yet "Painted palaces" is not a study of iconography. In examining the prehistory of painted rooms like Mantegna's Camera Picta, the larger goal is to rethink the history of early Renaissance art.

Enrico Caruso - His Life and Death

Author : Dorothy Caruso
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144748777X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Enrico Caruso - His Life and Death written by Dorothy Caruso and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an informative and detailed biography of Enrico Caruso, the seminal and esteemed Italian opera singer. Complete with a plethora of telling photographs and a wealth of insightful, interesting information about this most accomplished opera singer, this book will be of considerable value to those with an interest in his life and work. It is a biography not to be missed by the discerning collector. Enrico Caruso (1873 – 1921) was a popular Italian operatic tenor. He performed to significant acclaim at the most prestigious opera houses of Europe and America, and appeared in a variety of different roles ranging from the lyric to the dramatic. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Medieval Italy

Author : Katherine L. Jansen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206061
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Italy written by Katherine L. Jansen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural landscape of urban towers and fortified castles, the spirituality of Saints Francis and Clare, and the vernacular poetry of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The texts highlight the continuities with the medieval Latin West while simultaneously emphasizing the ways in which Italy was exceptional, particularly for its cities that drove Mediterranean trade, its new communal forms of government, the impact of the papacy's temporal claims on the central peninsula, and the richly textured religious life of the mainland and its islands. A unique feature of this volume is its incorporation of the southern part of the peninsula and Sicily—the glittering Norman court at Palermo, the multicultural emporium of the south, and the kingdoms of Frederick II—into a larger narrative of Italian history. Including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Lombard sources, the documents speak in ethnically and religiously differentiated voices, while providing wider chronological and geographical coverage than previously available. Rich in interdisciplinary texts and organized to enable the reader to focus by specific region, topic, or period, this is a volume that will be an essential resource for anyone with a professional or private interest in the history, religion, literature, politics, and built environment of Italy from ca. 1000 to 1400.

The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

Author : John F. Padgett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691148872
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Organizations and Markets written by John F. Padgett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. In the short run, they argue, actors make relations, but in the long run, they argue, actors make actors. Organizational novelty arises from spillover across intertwined networks, which tips reproducing biographical and production flows. This theory is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of careful and original historical case studies, ranging from early capitalism and state formation, to the transformation of communism, to the emergence of contemporary biotechnology and Silicon Vally. -- from back cover.

The Economy of Renaissance Florence

Author : Richard A. Goldthwaite
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421400596
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Economy of Renaissance Florence written by Richard A. Goldthwaite and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2010 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, the Renaissance Society of America2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHonorable Mention, Economics, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence’s commercial, banking, and artisan sectors. Florence was one of the most industrialized cities in medieval Europe, thanks to its thriving textile industries. The importation of raw materials and the exportation of finished cloth necessitated the creation of commercial and banking practices that extended far beyond Florence’s boundaries. Part I situates Florence within this wider international context and describes the commercial and banking networks through which the city's merchant-bankers operated. Part II focuses on the urban economy of Florence itself, including various industries, merchants, artisans, and investors. It also evaluates the role of government in the economy, the relationship of the urban economy to the region, and the distribution of wealth throughout the society. While political, social, and cultural histories of Florence abound, none focuses solely on the economic history of the city. The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a comprehensive overview of its economic development from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance to 1600.

The Merchant of Prato's Wife

Author : Ann Morton Crabb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472120735
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Merchant of Prato's Wife written by Ann Morton Crabb and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, including hundreds of letters she exchanged with Francesco, Ann Crabb investigates the social and economic importance of women’s roles as wives and mothers, early modern European views on honor, and the practice of letter writing in Margherita’s world. Margherita’s often colorful comments demonstrate her attitudes toward her rather unhappy marriage and her inability to have children, along with other aspects of her life. Her letters reveal the pride she felt in carrying out her many responsibilities as a wife and, later, a widow: in scribal letter writing, in business, in household management, and in farming. Crabb emphasizes that the role of a wife was a recognized social position, beyond her individual relations with her husband, and provided opportunities beyond what restrictive laws or restrictive views of female honor would suggest. Further, Crabb considers Margherita’s successful efforts, on her own initiative and in her late thirties, to learn to read and write at a literate level. This book will be of interest to both scholars and general readers of women’s history. In addition, historians of early modern Italy and, more generally, of early modern Europe will find this book valuable.