Iris Origo
Praise for The Merchant of Prato
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, ...
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