Villani, Giovanni,  -1348 <br/><br/>
Villani's Chronicle :  Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuova_Cronica  Release date is 2010-07-08 
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<br/><br/> "Villani's Chronicle" by Giovanni Villani is a 14th-century history of Florence written between 1300 and 1348. Inspired by Rome's first Jubilee, Villani chronicles his city's origins and development through detailed year-by-year accounts. The work documents building projects, population statistics, commerce, disasters, and pivotal battles between Guelphs and Ghibellines. His chronicle blends medieval reliance on divine providence with a modernistic statistical approach, continuing until the Black Death claimed his life in 1348. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Florence (Italy) -- History 
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