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Florentino francesco datini biography

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Life

Francesco di Marco Datini was born in Prato around 1335 the Marco Datino of Toscanello of Accompanied by Bonfigliolo, taverniere, and Monna Vermiglia. In 1348, because of the terrible plague, is orphaned of both parents and passes under the tutelage of Piero di Giunta of the Red and the loving care of Mona Piera of Prato Boschetti who ever loved him like a son.

After attending various workshops in Florence where he learned the art of mercantile and numeracy, the young Francis, following the example of many compatriots, in March 1350, decides groped their luck abroad and left for Avignon, at once the seat of the Papal Court and one of the largest shopping centers in Europe. From there he began his illustrious career and its success.

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In 1376, now rich and Mature Adult, while it is still in Avignon bride, with great pomp, a young Florentine, Margherita di Domenico di Donato Bandini.
From 1378 the complex history of the papacy in Avignon mean that loses somewhat of its attraction. Datini at the end of 1382, then, decides to return home. Acc

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Margherita Datini
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Carolyn James
  • LAST REVIEWED: 28 March 2018
  • LAST MODIFIED: 28 March 2018
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195399301-0189

  • Brucker, Gene. The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

    Analyzes the evolution of the Florentine republic from a corporate to elitist polity in the aftermath of the Ciompi revolt of 1378 and explores the resulting civic tensions in Florence and its dependent towns during the following decades.

  • Cherubini, Giovanni, ed. Prato storia di una città. Vol. 1. Prato, Italy: Le Monnier, 1991.

    A history of the town in which the Datini couple spent much of their married life.

  • Goldthwaite, Richard. The Economy of Renaissance Florence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

    The definitive study of Florence’s highly developed market economy; this book examines the business structures and relationships that underpinned local and international commerce, allowing us to understand the commercial world in which the Datini couple operated.

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    FRANCESCO DI MARCO DATINI/1
    Cfr: F. MELIS, Aspetti della vita economica medievale (studi nell'Archivio Datini di Prato), I, Siena 1962

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    Born at Prato round about the year 1335, he was the son of Marco di Datino, a merchant registered with the guild of tavern-keepers who was resident in Porta Fuia, and of Monna Vermiglia. Both parents died of the plague in 1348, together with two others of their children, Nofri and Vanna.
    Francesco and Stefano, the two surviving brothers, were taken under the guardianship of Piero di Giunta del Rosso, a relative of theirs, and they were welcomed into the house of Monna Piera di Pratese Boschetti who acted as mother to them.
    After working in various workshops in Florence where he learnt the skills of accounting and commerce, in 1350 Francesco moved to Avignon which was a flourishing commercial centre and the seat of the pope. His brother joined him in 1353. Very few traces of that period of activity remain in his archives.


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    In 1354, Piero di Giunta purchased for him "uno chasolare, i' sullo chanto dello Porcellaticho",

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