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 | The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant (Abridged Edition) by Duccio Balestracci, Betsy Merideth (Translator), Paolo Squatriti (Translator), Edward Muir (Foreword), Merideth Balestracci Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-271-01879-8 / 0271018798 ISBN-13: 978-0-271-01879-9 / 9780271018799 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 hi | |