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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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2015]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


