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    Giovanni Villani (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni vilˈlaːni]; c. 1276 or 1280 – 1348) was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from...
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  • Caiazzo; Giovanni Villani, Florentian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler; Jamian Juliano-Villani (born 1987), American painter; Matteo Villani (1283-1363)...
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    year-by-year linear format and written by the Italian banker and official Giovanni Villani (c. 1276 or 1280–1348). The idea came to him in the year 1300, after...
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    Giovanni Villani (Milan, 5 November 1864 – Scrutto, 25 October 1917) was an Italian general during World War I. He committed suicide during the battle...
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    Carla (1973). Battistero di San Giovanni a Firenze. Florence: Polistampa. p. 30. Danziger 2024, p. 25. Giovanni Villani, Nuova Cronica, IX, iii. Paolucci...
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    Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his...
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    falsely attributed to Rigaut de Berbezilh) were written in his honour. Giovanni Villani in his Nuova Cronica said: Count Raymond was a lord of gentle lineage...
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    is said that on one particular day some 30,000 people were counted. Giovanni Villani estimated that some 200,000 pilgrims came to Rome. Boniface and his...
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    Palazzo dell'Esecutore di Giustizia, once owned by the Uberti family. Giovanni Villani (1276–1348) wrote in his Nuova Cronica that the Uberti were "rebels...
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  • he set out in terzinas ninety-one cantos' worth of chronicle from Giovanni Villani's Cronaca. In Le proprietà di Mercato Vecchio he praised, again in terzinas...
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  • jubilee are Cimabue, Giotto, Charles, Count of Valois, the chronicler Giovanni Villani, and Dante Alighieri, who mentions it in the Divine Comedy in Canto...
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    conquered and destroyed.'" A typical medieval account is given by Giovanni Villani (1300): He relates that "it measured eighty miles [130 km] round, and...
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    Tagliacozzo, from the Chancellor, using material also to be gleaned later by Giovanni Villani, the Florentine merchant and historian. As a result, Dante in his Divine...
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    valley of the Arno River. According to the Italian medieval historian Giovanni Villani, the town was founded in 1296, by the Republic of Florence. The design...
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    away again in 1333 except for two of its central piers, as noted by Giovanni Villani in his Nuova Cronica. It was rebuilt in 1345. This location marks one...
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    Frederick II (left) meets al-Kamil (right). Nuova Cronica by Giovanni Villani (14th century)....
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  • Apulia Gestis. Giovanni Villani (1322–1348). Cronica (PDF). (In this book, Giovanni Pipino di Altamura is called il Paladino, while Giovanni Pipino da Barletta...
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    gesture towards neutrality.[citation needed] The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France...
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  • Death) (b. 1280) Umur of Aydın, Emir (killed in action) (b. c.1309) Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence (Black Death) (b. c. 1276) Sužiedėlis, Simas...
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    Europe, with able bankers and merchants such as the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani of the Peruzzi Company engaging in commercial transactions as far away...
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    founded in the 1st century, according to the 14th century chronicler Giovanni Villani. The diocese was directly subordinate to the Holy See (Papacy) until...
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    (1349–1351). Chronicon de Rebus in Apulia Gestis. Giovanni Villani (1322–1348). Cronica (PDF). (In this book, Giovanni Pipino di Altamura is called "il Paladino"...
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    professional murderer in this general sense. The Italian chronicler Giovanni Villani, who died in 1348, tells how the lord of Lucca sent 'his assassins'...
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    Guidi were mortal enemies of Florence. In the Nuova Cronica wrote by Giovanni Villani in 1306, Matilda was a decent and pious person. She is described there...
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  • late medieval Italian authors, including Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Giovanni Villani. Gualdrada was born around 1168 in Florence, Italy. Her...
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    he extended the original Nuova Cronica of his uncle Giovanni Villani down to 1364. Filippo Villani held a chair of jurisprudence in the Studio at Florence...
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    Roger II and half-sister of William and she became empress in 1192. Giovanni Villani said William I sought to put her to death due to the prediction until...
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    convincing portraits of a particular comet. The Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani wrote that the comet left "great trails of fumes behind", and that...
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    today's Rovezzano, already mentioned by medieval historians such as Giovanni Villani.   l'antico ponte de' Fiesolani, il quale era da Girone a Candegghi...
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    Sicily and Naples. Contemporaries regarded Peter as feeble-minded. Giovanni Villani, in his Nuova Cronica, calls him "almost an imbecile" (Italianate Latin:...
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