Today we traveled from Cavalese for our free weekend in Florence. We stopped on the way in Prato where we learned about letter writing. We saw many letters written by men and very few from women and children. Writing was most often done for business and bookkeeping purposes so the letters we saw that were written by children were done when they were training to work.
In Florence our group minus Professor Travis and Mark stayed at a hostel near the train station and split up to explore the city. We saw the Duomo, Piazzale Michelangelo and a few other places. We had some incredible meals, the best meal I had was our last night in Florence when we ate at a restaurant where we could see the pasta being made fresh right next to our table. Here are a few pictures from our time in Florence.
My article for today was about Margherita Datini and her husband Francesco. Margherita did all of the bookkeeping for her husband and she was able to write which was a very uncommon skill for a woman to have at that time. She learned how to write throughout her time handling her husbands business an had to deal with a lot of men questioning her abilities. This article relates to our time in Prato where we saw letters women wrote.
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