The first full study of the life of Margherita Datini illuminates the role and social standing of wives in early modern Italian society

Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of hi

A warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless e

A warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mercantile network in fourteenth-century Tuscany, and a peerless e