The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant by Duccio Balestracci

The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant

Duccio Balestracci with Paolo Squatriti (Translator), Betsy Merideth (Translator)

146 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
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In the early 1980s, Duccio Balestracci discovered in a Sienese archive two account books kept from 1450 to 1502 by a Tuscan peasant named Benedetto del Massarizia. Benedetto knew how to read but not how to write. Infected by the urban habit of det...

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