{"product_id":"9780241293928","title":"The Merchant of Prato : Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City by Iris Origo","description":"This  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.   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 to The Decameron' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56228762911093,"sku":"9780241293928","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241293928.jpg?v=1762255819","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780241293928","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}