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Giovanni Villani. Villani's Chronicle
Villani's Chronicle
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
§ 1. The Text
§ 2. The References
§ 3. The Principle of Selection
§ 4. The Historical Value of Villani’s Chronicle
§ 5. The Rationale of the Revolutions of Florence.[2]
§ 6. Dante’s Politics
SELECTIONS FROM THE. CHRONICLES OF VILLANI
NOTES AND WARNINGS
CHRONICLE. OF JOHN VILLANI
BOOK I
BOOK II
BOOK III
BOOK IV
BOOK V
BOOK VI
BOOK VII
BOOK VIII
BOOK IX
INDEX
INDEX TO DANTE REFERENCES
DIVINA COMMEDIA
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
Canzoni
Sonnet
Vita Nuova
Convivio
BOOK II
BOOK IV
De Monarchia
BOOK II
BOOK III
De Vulgari Eloquio
BOOK I
BOOK II
Epistolæ
Quæstia de Aqua et Terra
Johannes de Virgilio
Carmen
Footnote
Note on Corrected Text
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Giovanni Villani
Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani
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In the cities it is probable that the old municipal organization had never wholly died out, though it had no formal recognition. The citizens were sometimes allowed to live "under their own law," and sometimes not; but the tradition of the Roman law was never lost. Nominally the cities were under the jurisdiction of some territorial magnate, or a nominee of the Emperor, but practically they enjoyed various degrees of independence. Their effective organization would depend upon their special circumstances, but in such a case as that of Florence would be based on the trade guilds.
In Florence a number of the Teutonic nobles had settled in the city; but it owed its importance to its trade. The city-dwelling nobles kept up their clan life, and fortified their houses; but in other respects they had become partially assimilated in feeling, and even in habits and occupations, to the mercantile community in which they lived. They filled the posts of military and civil administration, and were conscious of a strong unity of interest with the people.
