The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant - Paperback
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The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant
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 detailed personal record keeping, he asked various of his literate acquaintances to put into writing the details of his daily affairs. The resulting...
Duccio Balestracci is Professor of History at the University of Siena, Italy. Renaissance in the Fields is an edited and revised translation of his 1984 book, La Zappa e la retorica.
Paolo Squatriti teaches history at the University of Michigan, where Betsy Merideth pursues her graduate studies.
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