The Nuova Cronica (also: Nova Cronica) or New Chronicles is a 14th-century history of Florence created in a year-by-year linear format and written by...
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Giovanni Villani (section Nuova Cronica)
banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica (New Chronicles) on the history of Florence. He was a leading statesman...
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of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and Michael VIII Palaiologos, demanding Peter to intervene in the war against Charles I of Anjou. Nuova Cronica....
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of importance. The Leggenda was once thought to be a source for the Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, itself a source for the Vespers. Brunetto Latini...
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because the sources are not exactly contemporary. The Annales Stadenses and Cronica Reinhardsbrunnensis both record his birth name. His double name at baptism...
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Villani reported this medieval Florentine legend in his 14th-century Nuova Cronica on the history of Florence. Excavations in the 20th century have shown...
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Pistoia. He is the protagonist of the first chapters of Dino Compagni's Nuova Cronica and is also mentioned by Dante in Paradise. He was of noble birth but...
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Frederick II (left) meets al-Kamil (right), illumination from Giovanni Villani's Nuova Cronica (Vatican Library ms. Chigiano L VIII 296, 14th century)....
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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 of the earliest crossings...
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Execution of Conradin by Giovanni Villani, Nuova Cronica, 14th century...
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