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    Filippo Villani (fl. end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century) was a chronicler of Florence. Son of the chronicler Matteo Villani, he extended...
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  • football (soccer) player; Elyse Villani (born 1989), Australian cricketer; Filippo Villani, Florentian chronicler; Giacomo Villani (1605–1690), Italian Roman...
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    Giovanni Villani (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni vilˈlaːni]; c. 1276 or 1280 – 1348) was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence...
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    under the command of Ricceri Grimaldi. As reported in the chronicle of Filippo Villani, on 28 July, the Florentine army under the command of Galeotto Malatesta...
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    myths about his childhood. For example, the Florentine chronicler Filippo Villani claimed that the reason his last name was "Hawkwood" was because when...
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    the Landini family via his presumed father, who was identified by Filippo Villani as a painter who lived a simple life is no longer accepted by art historians...
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    Chronicle); she was also called Medusa by the Florence chronicler Filippo Villani and is further known by a variety of nicknames, including Kriemhild...
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    Matteo was the brother of Giovanni Villani, and continued the chronicle up to 1363. It was again continued by Filippo Villani. St Catherine of Siena's mysticism...
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    Malmesbury, Theodoric of Sint-Truiden, Petrus Diaconus, Albertus Magnus, Filippo Villani, Jean de Montreuil, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giovanni de Dondi, Domenico...
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    other writers in whose works he appears include Franco Sacchetti and Filippo Villani. No painting of his is known with any certainty to survive. Some of...
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    Italian copyist Andrea Lancia [it] in 1343 and then by the chronicler Filippo Villani around 1400. Some authors have suggested that Jacopo della Lana [it]...
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    Francesco Landini, an Italian lutenist-composer during the trecento. Filippo Villani writes in his Liber de civitatis Florentiae, "...[Landini] invented...
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  • epidemic, in 1363. His work was briefly continued by his son Filippo. Giovanni Aquilecchia. "Villani, Matteo". Enciclopedia Dantesca. Treccani, 1970. AAVV....
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  • Villazón, with a portrait engraved by Francesco Zucchi. Matteo Villani & Filippo Villani, History (Historia) from 1348 to 1364, updated against two manuscripts...
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    Archimedes, Pietro Aretino, Lodovico Adimari, Luigi Alamanni, Matteo and Filippo Villani). From this experience, he conceived an ambitious plan to collect biographies...
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    of Giotto's home city Florence written in the late 14th century by Filippo Villani. It was rectangular, and positioned so that those leaving the basilica...
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  • praised by contemporaries like Giovanni Gherardi da Prato, Filippo Villani, and Giovanni Villani in his Cronica. Paolo was born at Prato, the son of Piero...
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    own life. Villani's work on the Nuova Cronica was continued by his brother Matteo (from April 1348 until July 1363) and his nephew Filippo (until 1364)...
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    literati, Francesco had a good reputation for his public service. Filippo Villani included an entry on Francesco in biographical dictionary of Florence...
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  • not clearly ascertained, he lost his benefice and became very poor. Filippo Villani, in his “Lives of Illustrious Florentines,” says that the Bishop of...
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  • was not a Florentine, since he does not appear in the chronicle by Filippo Villani, which includes all of the musicians active there throughout the 14th...
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    descendants retained ownership of the Lordship of Mirandola. Matteo Villani; Filippo Villani (1834). Come messer Bernabò ebbe la Mirandola (in Italian). Milan:...
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    but construction would continue well into the 12th century. Giovanni Villani records that the lantern atop the dome was completed in 1150. It is the...
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    Florence Cathedral (category Filippo Brunelleschi church buildings)
    crumbling with age, according to the 14th-century Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, and was no longer large enough to serve the growing population of the...
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    the Louvre in Paris. By traditional accounts, Francesco married Tommasa Villani after Camilla Rucellai died, but Kemp and Pallanti say that no documents...
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    Waleria studied painting for three years in Horochów with Constantino Villani and the miniaturist de Hoflize, then with Wincenty de Lesseur 1800-1804...
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  • (Poland) Fritz Scheuermann (Germany) Luis Villani (Hungary) Luigi Freddi (Italy) Antonio Maraini (Italy) Filippo Sacchi (Italy) Ottavio Croze (Italy) Raffaele...
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    Matteo Villani (born 29 August 1982) is an Italian steeplechase runner. Villani was born in San Secondo Parmense, Parma. He represented Italy at the 2008...
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    Angelo Villanis [it] to a libretto by Felice Romani, premiered in Turin at the Teatro Sutera in 1849. The other, by Luigi Arditi to a libretto by Filippo Manetta...
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    Filippo Argelati (December 1685 – 25 January 1755) was an Italian historian and prolific editor, notable as a leading scholar of his age. Filippo Argelati...
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