{"product_id":"9780241293928-the-merchant-of-prato","title":"The Merchant of Prato","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDaily Life in a Medieval Italian City\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis  extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant,  Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits  written in the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Datini has now probably become most intimately accessible figure of the later Middle Ages . brilliant and intricate' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As a picture of Tuscany before the dawn of the Renaissance it is a complement to \u003ci\u003eThe Decameron\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943121760353,"sku":"9780241293928","price":19.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32224558.jpg?v=1737102529","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241293928-the-merchant-of-prato","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}