Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant.
Iris Origo, the Marchesa Origo (1902-1988) was an American writer who lived in Southern Tuscany. Her other books include War in the Val d'Orcia, Leopardi and The Last Attachment.
Francesco di Marco Datini, the fourteenth-century Tuscan merchant
who forms the subject of Origo's brilliant study, has now probably
become the most intimately accessible figures of the later Middle
Ages ... paints, in brilliant and intricate detail, a picture of
Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance
*The Times*
As a picture of the daily round in Tuscany before the dawn of the
Renaissance it is a complement to The Decameron
*Sunday Times*
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