Giovanni Villani
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Empires, Dynasties, Holy Roman Empire, Historians
- Curriculum: Italian History, Medieval History/Middle Ages
Article abstract: In his Chronicle, Villani conveys an empirical account of the Italian communes and lays the foundation for a historiography based on human will and action.
Early Life
Giovanni Villani was born into a wealthy merchant family in Florence, Italy. It may be assumed that Villani, like most sons of merchants, went to a grammar school to learn Latin and then to another school to learn computation on the abacus. Thereafter, he likely apprenticed with a merchant firm, perhaps the Peruzzi company, with which his name was first associated. He...
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