Matteo was the brother of Giovanni Villani, and continued the chronicle up to 1363.

* Lady Mobster as Matteo Villani ( 1988 )

In addition to the questionable figures Villani posed for the Peruzzi and Bardi companies, it is also known that several events described in his Cronica surrounding the Buonaccorsi's bankruptcy were written to deliberately obscure the truth about the company's fraudulent behavior ; Miller writes that " this is one of the most convincing conclusions " of historian Michele Luzzati's Giovanni Villani e la Compagnia dei Buonaccorsi ( 1971 ).

When detailing the construction of the Florence Cathedral and the artist Giotto di Bondone as the designer of the new bell tower, Villani called him " the most sovereign master of painting in his time.

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin states that Villani was most likely serving as a Peruzzi representative in Flanders when he heard the story of the French Jew who in 1290 tried to destroy Host bread ( of the Eucharist ) but was unsuccessful as the bread allegedly bled profusely as he stabbed it, and turned into flesh as he attempted to boil it in water.

Other banking companies also went bankrupt, such as the Peruzzi in 1343 and the Compagnia dei Bardi in 1346 ( they were allied in a joint venture by 1336 ); Villani calculated that before their bankruptcy the Peruzzi had lost some 600, 000 florins and the Bardi had lost some 900, 000 florins.

It is unclear how long Villani served his prison sentence for alleged misconduct during the economic disaster of 1346.

Giovanni Villani was a co-director of Buonaccorsi in 1324.

Villani and the Buonaccorsi had gained an unsavory reputation as early as 1331, when Villani was tried ( and cleared ) for barratry for his part in building the new third circuit of walls around Florence.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Beaufort has been named by some sources as one of " America's Best Art Towns ", including being ranked the No. 14 Small City Arts Destination by American Style Magazine in 2008 and one of America's top 100 art towns by author John Villani in his 2005 book The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums, Festivals, Lodging and Dining.

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.

According to Călinescu, Iorga was visibly embarrassed by even 19th century Romanticism, out of his territory with virtually everything after " Villani and Commynes ", and endorsing the " obscure manqués " in modern Romanian letters.

The project would later be renamed " FreeDOS ", without the hyphen, after the publication of FreeDOS Kernel, by Pat Villani.

Most of the original biographical data on him comes from a 1385 book on famous Florentine citizens by chronicler Filippo Villani, who was also born approximately 1325.

According to Villani, Landini was given a crown of laurel by the King of Cyprus, who was in Venice for several periods during the 1360s.

" In recurring themes made implicit through significant events described in his Cronica, Villani also emphasized three assumptions about the relationship of sin and morality to historical events, these being that excess brings disaster, that forces of right and wrong are in constant struggle, and that events are directly influenced by the will of God.

A painting by Giotto di Bondone in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, within the chapel owned by the Peruzzi bankers ; Giotto's artworks were praised by Villani.

The figure Villani asserted of 400, 000 Florins owed to the Peruzzi by Edward alone equalled Villani's estimate for the entire payroll of 30, 000 workers of the Florentine cloth industry in 1338.

To emphasize the imperial greatness of Florentine history, Villani also asserted that the city was given a second founding when it was rebuilt by Charlemagne ( r. 800 – 814 as Holy Roman Emperor )— which was absent from the Chronica de origine civitatis.

Villani was certain that the Republic of Florence had experienced a great setback on its path to glory with the defeat of the Guelphs by the Ghibellines at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260.

Despite this, Villani states that the paramount prosperity and tranquility of the city by 1293 was evidenced by the fact that its gates were no longer locked at night and that indirect taxes such as the gate fee ( common in times of war ) were not levied.

In his revised Cronica of 1322, Villani shortened Dante's biography and the amount of quotations taken from his Divine Comedy.

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

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.

In 1962, Mussolini married Anna Maria Villani Scicolone, the sister of actress Sophia Loren.

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 )

* 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 )

Sophia Loren, OMRI (, ; born Sofia Villani Scicolone on 20 September 1934 ) is an Italian actress.

Loren was born in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy, daughter of Romilda Villani ( 1914 – 1991 ) and Riccardo Scicolone, a construction engineer of Sicilian and Venetian origins.

Scicolone refused to marry Villani, leaving Romilda, a piano teacher and aspiring actress, without support.

Loren's parents had another child together, her sister Anna Maria Villani Scicolone, in 1938.

Villani played the piano, Maria sang and Loren waited on tables and washed dishes.

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 use of firearms at this battle is only mentioned in one contemporary account of the battle, that of Villani ( d. 1348 ).

Villani did travel abroad during much of the early 14th century, yet he had returned to his home in Florence at the time of the Battle of Crécy, so his information was likely second hand if not third or fourth hand.