REPRESENTATION ON LIFE VALUES IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE CHANGING ITALIAN SOCIETY IN THE XIV-XV CENTURIES: A TRIVIAL VIEW OF A NOTARY AND A BUYER

The article discusses the ideas of life values in the Italian society of the transition period of the XIV-XV centuries. The implementation of the research tasks was achieved on the basis of analysis of the correspondence of the famous Italian merchant Francesco di Marco Datini and his friend, a notary Sulfur Lapo Mazzeo Mazzei. In Florentine society, new views in the hands of educated people were a tool for understanding and organizing the world; therefore, contemporaries attached great importance to this aspect. Based on the analysis of the sources, the author concludes that the characters of the merchant and the notary in the sources show their individuality and produce a signiicant change in the mentality in the next century. The conducted microanalysis allows us to conclude that the friendship between Francesco Datini and Lappo Mazzei was strong, included their relatives and friends into the orbit of communication, and was based on the attractiveness of opposites, as they were from different social strata. However, the exceptional interest in the epistolary heritage of the characters arises not only because of their personalities, but also due to the possibility of recreating their time and worldview. Based on the analysis of this material, the author concludes that the submitted correspondence can be the foundation for generalization of the collected information and its inclusion in the wider social context. The importance of studying the fate of a merchant and a notary is that, although they followed the Christian commandments adopted in society, they still represented the images of people of the new era. The spirit of entrepreneurship, charity, commerce, international business and intense individualism was projected by their followers - the great people of the Renaissance.

values, moral attitudes, family, Italy, the later Middle Ages, friendship, notary, merchant intelligence, innovations

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