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    Francesco di Marco Datini (c. 1335 – 16 August 1410) was an Italian merchant born in Prato. Datini is notable for having implemented the first partnership...
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    were added in the 16th century and later. Palazzo Datini Built from 1383 for the merchant Francesco Datini. It was decorated by Florentine artists like Agnolo...
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    appears unlikely. Ravioli are mentioned in the personal letters of Francesco Datini, a merchant of Prato in the 14th century. In Venice, the mid-14th-century...
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  • (basolardi di basola) in the accounts of an arms dealer of Florence, Francesco Datini, dated to 1375. See Meier (1998). Earlier authors made other attempts...
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    and a museum and archive. Begun in 1383 as the residence of merchant Francesco Datini, it was subsequently decorated by artists such as Agnolo Gaddi and...
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    the wool guild: wool textile interests guided Florentine policies. Francesco Datini, the "merchant of Prato", established in 1383 an Arte della Lana for...
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    in Palazzo Datini, in Prato. In the centre, the Madonna and Child are flanked by Saints Stephen and John the Baptist; below, Francesco Datini presents to...
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  • maker generally credited with the invention of the piano (c. 1700) Francesco Datini (1335–1410), merchant whose business and private papers, preserved...
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    a 14th-century polychrome wooden Crucifix, donated by the merchant Francesco Datini (who was buried next to the altar). The latter's tomb in white marble...
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    speech compares Magnolfi to the local 15th-century philanthropist Francesco Datini. The statue, sculpted by Oreste Chilleri, unfortunately inaccurately...
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