Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origo's study, has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the later-Middle Ages.
A bestseller upon its original publication in the 1980s, these diaries reveal life during WWII in Tuscany and include stunning rediscovered photographsAt the height of the Second World War, Italy was
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time.War in Italy in 1939 was by no means necessary, or even beneficial to the country. B
