Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423
by
Ann Morton Crabb
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
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...