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Francesco di Marco Datini. The Man the Merchant

A cura di:
Giampiero Nigro,

The book is the result of specific investigations carried out by scholars who have been engaged for some time in studying the various issues addressed. It represents an updated overview of the figure of Francesco di Marco Datini as a man and as a merchant. Through the internal history of his system of companies and analysis of the historical debate of recent decades, the book reconstructs various fundamental aspects of the economy of the time. It proposes a rereading of the mentality of Tuscan merchants and the instruments adopted by them in the years around the turn of the fifteenth century. The book offers new elements and cues for reflection on the life of Francesco Datini, his family relations, his concept of wealth and the construction of the palazzo.

Parole chiave:
Economia,
Francesco Datini,
storia economica,

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DOI: 10.36253/978-88-8453-642-6
Collana: Biblioteca di storia
Comitato scientifico: Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica «F. Datini»
Lingua: Inglese
Argomento: Storia economica

Acquisto

Giampiero Nigro

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1008-1153

GIAMPIERO NIGRO is a Full Professor of Economic History in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Florence. His publications deal with the organisation of trade in the Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages, the history of currency and banks, and consumption and nutrition in the different social classes. Another strand of interest concerns study of the characteristics of the Prato textile district between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. He is the Scientific Director of the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica «F. Datini».

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Introduction (PDF)