Giovanni Villani, a contemporary of Boccaccio and chronicler, states that he was born in Paris as a consequence of an illicit relation but others denounce this as a romanticism by the earliest biographers.

* 1333 – The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.

This story first entered the Italian literary tradition via Giovanni Villani ( c. 1280 – 1348 ) and his Nuova Cronica.

The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France by a formal agreement before his elevation, made at St. Jean d ' Angély in Saintonge.

In the late Middle Ages, writers, such as Giovanni Villani, began thinking about the nature of these states and the differences from the more common monarchies.

The Nuova Cronica, a 14th century history of Florence by the Florentine banker and official Giovanni Villani, includes much statistical information on population, ordinances, commerce and trade, education, and religious facilities and has been described as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history.

Emilia narrates this tale, one part of which ( the motif of using extra fine bow strings ) supposedly is based on a real event, according to a chronicle by Giovanni Villani.

It is at this celebration that Giovanni Villani decides to write his universal history of Florence, the Cronica.

** Giovanni Villani, chronicler of Florence ( b. c. 1276 )

* November 4 – The Arno River floods, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by Giovanni Villani.

* May 15 – one of the first exchange contracts ( cambium ) to mention the city of Bruges involved two parties: Giovanni Villani, representing the Peruzzi Company, granting a loan to Tommaso Fini, representing the Gallerani Company of Siena.

** Giovanni Villani, Florentine writer ( d. 1348 )

The Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani, who died in 1348, tells how the lord of Lucca sent ` his assassins ' ( i suoi assassini ) to Pisa to kill a troublesome enemy there.

The Florentine Giovanni Villani agreed that they were destructive on the field, though he also indicated that the guns continued to fire upon French cavalry later in the battle:

Totila razes the walls of Florence: illumination from the Chigi ms of Giovanni Villani | Villani's Cronica

The same name was also used by Florentines, such as the poet Fazio degli Uberti ( circa 1309 – 1367 ), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani ( c. 1275 – 1348 ), and Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of Carantania, a land in the Alps dividing Italy from Germany.

Execution of Conradin, Giovanni Villani: Nuova Cronica, 14th century

* Giovanni Villani, Cronica, V. 20, VI. 16, VII. 1

The ancient building, founded in the early 5th century and having undergone many repairs, was crumbling with age, as attested in the 14th century Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, and was no longer large enough to serve the growing population of the city.

Similarly, the chronicler Giovanni Villani was so impressed on this occasion by the sight of the monuments of Rome and the people who flocked thither that he then and there formed the resolution of his great chronicle, in the course of which he gives a remarkable account of what he witnessed.

The Leggenda was once thought to be a source for the Nuova Cronica of Giovanni Villani, itself a source for the Vespers.

Giovanni Villani discussed the Council of Vienne in his Chronicles, IX, XXII.

Giovanni Villani was born into the Florentine merchant middle class.

* A landscape pen-and-ink drawing by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, c 1650, to which Algardi has added figures of the Holy Family ( Getty Museum )

* Giovanni Battista Castello ( c. 1500 – c.

File: Giovanni di paolo, St Catherine of Siena. jpg | Giovanni di Paolo, " St. Catherine of Siena ", c. 1475, oil on tempera.

Giovanni d ' Andrea or Johannes Andreæ, ( c. 1270 / 1275 – 1348 ) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages.

Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacobby Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, c. 1640.

* 1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker ( d. c. 1740 )

* Giovanni Battista Zeno ( c. 1440-1501 ), Venetian cardinal

* October 11 – Giovanni Ambrogio Figino, Italian painter ( b. c. 1549 )

* probable – Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter ( d. c. 1645 )

* March 11 – Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer ( b. c. 1543 )

* August 12 – Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer ( b. c. 1554 )

* August 18 – Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer ( b. c. 1540 )

* September – Giovanni de Macque, composer ( b. c. 1550 )

** Giovanni Battista Adriani, Italian historian ( b. c. 1512 )

* December 12 – Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter ( b. c. 1572 )

* August 1 – Giovanni Santi, artist and father of Raphael ( b. c. 1435 )

* December 28: Bertoldo di Giovanni, sculptor ( b. c. 1435 )

** Giovanni da Verrazzano, Italian explorer ( approximate date ; d. c. 1528 )

Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father ; Christ supported by two angels, c. 1490

Pope Nicholas III ( c. 1210 / 1220 – 22 August 1280 ), born Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, was Pope from 25 November 1277 until his death.

Born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, Zuccarelli began his apprenticeship in Rome in c. 1713-14 with the portrait painters Giovanni Maria Morandi ( 1622-1717 ) and his pupil Pietro Nelli ( 1672-1740 ), under whose tutelage he learned the elements of design while absorbing the lessons of Roman classicism.