Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence: The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti & Gregorio Dati

by Gregorio Dati, Buonaccorso Pitti, Julia Martines, et al.

Book Overview

One of the most useful books dealing with Italian social history! This unique volume offers readers a glimpse into the private lives of two Florentine businessmen during the late fourteenth century. A... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088133622X
• ISBN13: 9780881336221
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Waveland Press
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Dati the much married merchant

If readers find Pitti's memoir rambling and not very Florentine in its focus, they should turn instead to the revealing record book of Gregorio Dati, a Florentine merchant with multiple business ventures, wives, children, political offices, encounters with the plague, religious musings. An amazing and very important primary source for early 15th century Italian life. Try counting the wives, children and funerals.

Great Book!

Fast delivery and book in great condition! This is a great book to read it gives great insight to the people of the time period.

Great resource!

The Buonaccorso Pitti diary gives a remarkable view into the day-to-day life of Tuscan nobility. It is even more amazing when one considers the subsequent history of his descendents, the house of Buonaccorsi di Pistoia.