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	Giovanni Villani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giovanni Villani (ca 1275-1348), the Florentine writer of the famous chronicles (the Cronica) is the greatest Italian chronicler of his own times and the cornerstone of the early medieval history of Florence.
		Villani was born into the Florentine merchant middle class, the son of Villano di Stoldo, and during the early years of the 14th century he gained political perspective travelling in Italy, France and Flanders for the Peruzzi bank, of which he was a shareholder until 1308.
		Matteo Villani, his brother, of whom nothing is known save that he was twice married and that he died of the plague in 1363, continued it down to the year of his death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_Villani (799 words)

	VILLANI - LoveToKnow Article on VILLANI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1301 Villani saw Charles, count of Valois, ruining his country under the false name of peacemaker, and was witness of all the misery which immediately followed.
		Villani was sent with others as a hostage to Ferrara, where he remained for some months.
		The universality of the narrative, especially in the times near Villani's own, while it bears witness to the author's extensive travels and to the comprehensiveness of his mind, makes one also feel that the book was inspired within the walls of the universal city.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VI/VILLANI.htm (921 words)

	VILLANI, GLOVANNI - LoveToKnow Article on VILLANI, GLOVANNI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was for half a century eyewitness of his history, and he provides abundant information on the constitution of Florence, its customs, industries, commerce and arts; and among the chronicleis throughout Europe he is perhaps unequalled for the value of the statistical data he has preserved.
		As a writer Villani is clear and acute; and, though his prose has not the force and coloring of Compagni's, it has the advantage of greater simplicity, so that, taking his work as a whole, he may be regarded as the greatest chronicler who has written in Italian.
		Yillani's Chronicle was continued by two other members of his family, (i) MATTEO VILLANI, his brother, of whom nothing is known save that he was twice married and that he died of the plague in 1363, continued it down to the year of his death.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VI/VILLANI_GLOVANNI.htm (1781 words)

	Giovanni Villani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Giovanni Villani (ca 1275-1348), the Florentine writer of the famous chronicles (the Cronica) is the greatest Italian (Someone who writes chronicles) chronicler of his own times and the cornerstone of the early medieval history of (A town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center) Florence.
		In 1328 famine visited (A region in central Italy) Tuscany, and Villani was appointed to guard Florence from its worst effects.
		Filippo Villani, Matteo's son, flourished in the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century, bringing the Chronicle down to 1410.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giovanni_villani.htm (801 words)

	Giovanni Villani Biography / Biography of Giovanni Villani Biography
		Giovanni Villani was a Florentine merchant whose wide travels gave him an interest in Florence and the world around it.
		Villani also describes well-known figures from Florentine history, and his description of the poet Dante is often quoted.
		Villani was the first chronicler to remark that the barbarian invasions of the later Roman Empire were a turning point in European history.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-giovanni-villani (460 words)

	LA STORIA DEGLI SCACCHI - Letteratura:Chess Italian Secular Literature by Ferlito/Williams:G.Villani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Giovanni, son of an humble family, is known to have been in Rome for the Jubilee in 1300.
		In 1335 Villani was declared bankrupt with the eminent banking family of Bardi, the financial important family and was imprisoned.
		And in Chapter V, Villani stated clearly that the Count Charles of Anjou and Provence was crowned king of the Two Sicilies (Apulia and Sicily) on the day of Epiphany January the 6th 1265.
	freeweb.supereva.com /carmelo111/villa.htm (734 words)

	VILLANI, GIOVANNI (c. 1245-1348) - Online Information article about VILLANI, GIOVANNI (c. 1245-1348)
		Tuscany, and Villani was appointed to guard Florence fromthe worst effects of that distressing period.
		Dino Compagni feels and lives in the facts of his history; Villani looks at them and relates them calmly and fairly, with a serenity which makes him seem an outsider, even when he is mixed up in them.
		Villani's Chronicle was continued by two other members of his family.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VILLANI_GIOVANNI_c_1245_1348_.html (2121 words)

	VillaniIntro
		The text of Villani is well known to be in a very unsatisfactory condition, and no attempt at a critical treatment of it has been made.
		To know whether Constance was fifty-two, or only thirty, when she married Henry VI., and whether he took her from a convent or a palace is of less immediate consequence to the student of Dante than to be acquainted with the Guelf tradition as to these circumstances.
		Villani is as valuable to the historian as he is delightful to the general reader.
	www.elfinspell.com /VillaniIntro.html (5132 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Giovanni Villani: Florentine Chronicle
		Villani is principally remembered, not as merchant or politician, but as an historian.
		Villani says that the Ghibellines were expelled in 1258 because they "planned to break up the people of Florence." He refers to the government at the time, the so-called primo popolo or "first government of the people," which ruled Florence from 1250 to 1260.
		Since Villani simply refers to it as "the people," it is often hard to decide whether he is using the word popolo in a general sense ("the citizens of Florence") or in a more specific sense ("the government of Florence").
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/villani.html (7371 words)

	Masaccio - VI centenario della nascita - Sito Ufficiale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The decision to found San Giovanni and Castelfranco was taken, according to the historian Giovanni Villani, in 1296.
		The population of Castel San Giovanni (as San Giovanni was called at that time) was a merging of small inhabited centres and castles in the surrounding areas owned by powerful local landowners.
		The Palazzo Pretorio, until 1401 the seat of the sole Podestà of San Giovanni, became from the beginning of the 5fifteenth century the seat of the Vicari del Valdarno Superiore ('Deputies of the Upper Valdarno').
	www.masaccio2001.it /cgi-bin/english/sgv_storia1.shtml (666 words)

	RHISE Vol. 2 - Hammerl, The earthquake of January 25th, 1348.....
		To Giovanni Villani, who himself became a victim to the plague in the summer of 1348, the earthquake was an apocalyptic omen, because he says that the earthquake meant disaster and pestilence for the places concerned.
		Giovanni da Parma (XIV), canon at Trient, only heard about damage in Udine: "Even worse news are told by people coming from abroad: half of the palace of Udine, which belongs to the patriarch of Aquileia, has collapsed...".
		Both the physician Giovanni Agazzari (XV), born 1413 in Piacenza, in his Chronica Civitatis Placentiae, and Iohannes de Mussis, also from Piacenza, in his Chronicon Placentinum (XIV) (original from 1375 onwards), state in the very same words that the earthquake was felt in Piacenza.
	emidius.mi.ingv.it /RHISE/ii_20ham/ii_20ham.html (4120 words)

	Florence Art Guide - Santa Reparata
		This church was described in Giovanni Villani's 13th century "Chronacles" as being "large in size but too small for such a big city" (we can see part of it in the fresco in the Museum of the Bigallo).
		The presence of the tomb of Giovanni di Alamanno de' Medici, who died in 1352, shows how important the family had already become at this date.
		Giovanni, brother of the same Salvestro who apparently led the Revolt of the Ciompi in 1378, has the prestigious office of Gonfalonier of the Republic engraved on his tombstone.
	www.mega.it /eng/egui/monu/buc.htm (663 words)

	Diakite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This paper will focus on the most ambitious and consistent of these chronicles, the Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, written during the first half of the century.
		Villani’s account of the communal crisis is marked by the interweaving of apocalyptic models with imagery of Christian conversion and of classical metamorphosis.
		Finally, while pointing out the distance which separates the perspectives of poet and chronicler – in so far as the “political” dimension of Dante’s observations is reduced by Villani to a primarily moral one – I emphasize the vitality of the Nuova Cronica which boldly attempts to embrace tomorrow’s world with today’s words.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Medieval_Studies/Conference/2001/diakite.html (204 words)

	Boccaccio Giovanni: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO -ii- GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY BY EDWARD HUTTON WITH PHOTOGRAVURE...THE POEM TO FIAMMETTA 348 V. Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
		Giovanni Boccaccio: Theseid of the Nuptials of Emilia (Teseida Delle Nozze De Emilia)
		Giovanni Sercambi and Franco Sacchetti...established by Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio was inhibited by a strong...Marsilio Ficino, and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola were...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101233312 (1722 words)

	Giovanni Villani, Nuova Cronica (Book XIII, 1342-1348)
		Giovanni Villani, wealthy merchant and politically active citizen in his native Florence, composed the Nuova Cronica between the early 1300s and the year 1348, when his efforts were truncated by his untimely death in the plague.
		The chronicler addresses his work to a readership of “laici,” or laymen (I,1), proposing to gather together the disparate sources on the Florentine past, since a knowledge of history would provide moral instruction for future generations of citizens.
		We are defining those sections of text which are thematically focused on lordly government—its context, its rise, its actions, its opponents and its collapse.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Italian_Studies/vhl/cronica.html (418 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giovanni Villani
		The failure of the Peruzzi bank, in 1346, occasioned by the insolvency of the Kings of England and of Sicily, caused Villani's imprisonment.
		At Rome in 1300 Villani conceived the idea of writing the history, or chronicle, of Florence, which he divided into twelve books.
		Unlike most medieval historians, Villani is interested in the economic life both of the State and of private individuals.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15429b.htm (449 words)

	Illustrious People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although he claimed to have experienced a Gibbon-like inspiration to write while at the Roman Jubilee of 1300, the bulk of his chronicle was not put into its final form until 1333-41, continuing until just before his death from the plague of 1348.
		A banker who knew little Latin, Villani skilfully wove together biblical and classical strands so as to place the rise of Florence, 'the daughter of Rome', firmly in the context of world history as understood at the time.
		Modern commentators have been impressed by Villani's grasp of statistics, as shown in his description of the state of Florence in 1338, and by the tension between his detailed reporting of political and economic misfortunes and his belief in divine providence.
	www.wga.hu /database/glossary/illustri/villani.html (177 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sicilian Vespers
		Then, concluding a treaty which assured him the assistance of the Venetian fleet (3 July, 1281), Charles was organizing a formidable crusade for the conquest of Constantinople, when the revolt of 31 March, 1282, obliged him to direct his arms against Sicily and save the Byzantine Empire.
		In a famous book, "La Guerra del Vespero Siciliano", the first edition of which appeared at Palermo in 1842, the Sicilian patriot Amari endeavoured to show that the insurrection of 1282 was a wholly spontaneous popular movement due to the oppressive administration and fiscal tyranny of Charles of Anjou.
		In these Giovanni da Procida played a part which it is impossible to define precisely, and possibly certain of the Sicilian nobles were aware of this intrigue.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15384a.htm (799 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Pope Clement V
		Bertrand was neither Italian nor a cardinal, and his election might have been considered a gesture towards neutrality.
		The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to king Philip IV of France by a formal agreement previous to his elevation, made at St Jean d'Angly in Saintonge.
		Whether this was true or not, it is likely that the future pope had conditions laid down for him by the conclave of cardinals.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Pope_Clement_V (789 words)

	Introduction, Brunetto Latino, Il Tesoretto, ed. Julia Bolton Holloway
		Filippo Villani says that Brunetto Latino was the 'rhetorician' of Florence, noting that he was both witty and learned, capable of moving audiences to laughter, but nevertheless governing himself with morality (F. Villani, p.
		Giovanni Villani likewise stresses Brunetto Latino's espousal of Ciceronian rhetoric for the sake of the Florentine commune (G. Villani, VIII.10).
		Giovanni Villani states, according to one interpretation, that he keyed the works to each other, 'fece il buon ed util libro detto Tesoro, e il Tesoretto é la chiave del Tesoro' (G. Villani, VIII.10); yet they never occur in the same manuscript.
	www.florin.ms /tesorettintro.html (7982 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Golf bulletin
		The third annual Giovanni Villani-Bill Likins Golf Classic, to benefit San Diego County junior golfers, will be held Saturday, March 22, at the Sun Valley Golf Course in La Mesa.
		The cost is $50 per adult golfer and $25 for juniors 17 and under and includes a BBQ lunch and ice cream.
		The Giovanni Villani-Bill Likins Foundation has awarded two $3,000 scholarships in 2001 and 2002.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/golf/20030313-9999_1s13bulletin.html (258 words)

	AllRefer.com - Giovanni Villani (Historians, European, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Giovanni Villani[jOvAn´nE vEl-lA´nE] Pronunciation Key, c.1275–1348, Italian historian of Florence.
		As a Florentine government functionary, he participated in some of the events he narrates.
		His 12-volume history of Florence, written as a universal history from ancient times to 1348, is quite reliable for events during Villani's own time.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Villani.html (177 words)

	Battle of Campaldino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The scuttlebutt reported by Villani was that a plot had been intercepted at Arezzo, by which the Bishop agreed to give over to the Florentines Bibbiena Civitella, and all the villages of his see, in return for a life annuity of 5,000 golden florins a year, guaranteed by the bank of the Cerchi.
		The plot was uncovered by his nephew Guglielmo de' Pazzi, and they hustled the bishop onto his horse and brought him to the battlefield, where they left him dead among the slain of the battle and its aftermath: Guglielmino de' Pazzi in Valdarno and Bonconte, the son of Guido da Montefeltro.
		According to Villani, Corso Donati, podestà of Pistoia.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Battle-of-Campaldino.htm (311 words)

	EconPapers: Social Norms, Demographic Shocks, and Dowries in Florence, 1250-1450 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the 1340s, the Florentine citizen Giovanni Villani asserted that in the thirteenth century, 100 lire was the typical dowry in Florence.
		From the data I collected, the answer is "apparently yes." In current lire, the median dowry was 100 lire in the second half of the thirteenth century and 272 lire in the decade before the Black Death of 1348 (Table 2).
		Third, various measures indicate that in the city dowry inequality rose, whereas it remained the same in the countryside (Table 3).
	econpapers.repec.org /paper/redsed004/4.htm (1655 words)

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		The founder of the Venetian school of painting, Giovanni Bellini raised Venice to a center of Giovanni Bellini was born in Venice, Italy, in about 1430.
	www.listsky.com /litk/giovanni.htm (186 words)

	Pasqua e lo "Scoppio del Carro"
		According to a tradition mentioned by the medieval Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani, the venerable ceremony called the "scoppio del carro" (explosion of the cart) is related to the First Crusade, preached in Florence by the then bishop, Ranieri.
		During the pontificate of Leo X (Giovanni de'Medici, 1513-1521), the 'colombina' - a rocket shaped like a dove, with an olive branch in its beak - was used for the first time.
		The dove is an evident reminder of the Holy Spirit, "Lord of life" and symbol of Easter peace).
	www.duomofirenze.it /feste/pasqua_eng.htm (574 words)

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