；Balestracci, Fiammetta (Independent scholar),Richter, Isabel (German Historial Institute Washington, Pacific Office Berkeley),von Hodenburg, Christina (German Historical Institute London and Queen Ma
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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 h
