The Merchant of Prato
Autor Iris Origoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iul 2020
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 toThe Decameron'Sunday Times
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781681374208
ISBN-10: 168137420X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 130 x 200 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
ISBN-10: 168137420X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 130 x 200 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Notă biografică
Iris Origo (1902-1988) was born in Britain to an aristocrat mother and a wealthy American father. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce that she purchased with her husband, Antonio Origo, in the 1920s. Their son, Gianni, died of meningitis in 1933, after which she embarked on a writing career, publishing a successful biography, Leopardi: A Study in Solitude. Traveling in London in the 1930s, she befriended Virginia Woolf and became romantically involved with L. H. Myers (the author of The Root and the Flower). During World War II, she gave birth to two daughters, Benedetta and Donata, and, with Antonio, sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's Fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Her memoirs of life in Italy during the war period are collected in two volumes, A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 (first published in 2017) and War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 (first published in 1947). In 1976, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at La Foce.
Charles Nicholl is a British-born historian and travel writer based in Italy. Among his books are Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography), Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize), and The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Charles Nicholl is a British-born historian and travel writer based in Italy. Among his books are Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe (winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography), Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize), and The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street.
Recenzii
Francesco
di
Marco
Datini,
the
fourteenth-century
Tuscan
merchant
who
forms
the
subject
of
Origo's
brilliant
study,
has
now
probably
become
the
most
intimately
accessible
figures
of
the
later
Middle
Ages
...
paints,
in
brilliant
and
intricate
detail,
a
picture
of
Italian
domestic
life
on
the
eve
of
the
Renaissance
As a picture of the daily round in Tuscany before the dawn of the Renaissance it is a complement toThe Decameron
As a picture of the daily round in Tuscany before the dawn of the Renaissance it is a complement toThe Decameron