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

by EdwardMuir (Foreword), PaoloSquatriti (Foreword), Duccio Balestracci (Author), Betsy Merideth (Foreword)

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  1999

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  This text uses Bendetto del Massarizia's account books and a host of archival records to explore the lives of Benedetto and his family over the course of the 15th century. It shows how country people could organize land and capital and protect themselves from landlords and urban administrators.