Villani and his brother Matteo transferred most of their economic activities to the Buonaccorsi firm by 1322.

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

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 ).

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.

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

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.

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.

However, he did find civic pride in that the whole city — including the novi cives — had joined together in an uprising against Walter VI, whose sins of imposing tyranny were, to Villani, sufficient justification for the violence needed to overthrow him.

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.

Giovanni Villani in his Nuova Cronica had this to say about Raymond:

It was reported by Villani that a plot had been intercepted at Arezzo, by which the bishop agreed to give over to the Florentines Bibbiena Civitella, and all the villages of his see, in return for a life annuity of 5, 000 golden florins a year, guaranteed by the bank of the Cerchi.

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.

Yet Villani still relied upon the Chronica de origine civitatis as the prime source for Florence's early history in his narrative.

However, the early 20th century historian Philip Wicksteed stated of Villani, " When dealing with his own times, and with events immediately connected with Florence, he is a trustworthy witness, but minute accuracy is never his strong point ; and in dealing with distant times and places he is hopelessly unreliable.

Filippo Villani writes in his Liber de civitatis Florentiae, "... invented a new sort of instrument, a cross between lute and psaltery, which he called the serena serenarum, an instrument that produces an exquisite sound when its strings are struck.

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.

He interpreted this as an omen that foretold the Pope's beating and untimely death shortly after fighting Philip IV at Anagni ; Villani wrote: " when the tamed beast kills the King of Beasts, then the dissolution of the Church will begin.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome, the daughter of Romano Mussolini, the fourth son of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, and Anna Maria Villani Scicolone ( born 11 May 1938, Rome ).

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.

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.

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.

Villani, in his chronicle, also stated that Landini was an inventor of instruments, including a stringed instrument called the ' syrena syrenarum ', that combined features of the lute and psaltery, and it is believed to be the ancestor of the bandura.

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.

He was heavily involved in the political and religious controversies of his day, according to Villani, but he seems to have remained in the good graces of the Florentine authorities.

Giovanni Villani ( c. 1276 or 1280 – 1348, ) was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica ( New Chronicles ) on the history of Florence.

Villani was inspired to write his Cronica after attending the jubilee celebration in Rome in 1300 and noting the venerable history of that city.

Giovanni Villani was born into the Florentine merchant middle class.

Villani was a member of the Arte di Calimala ( wool finishers ) guild in Florence since 1300, serving on the mercanzia council of eight.

Traveling abroad as a factor for the company, Villani was paid a regular salary in addition to his shareholding profits.

From 1329 to 1330 Villani was a commune-appointed magistrate of provisioning protecting Florence from the famine's worst effects.

Villani was the superintendent of the construction of Andrea Pisano's bronze doors for the Florence Baptistry.

Villani was sent on another diplomatic mission in 1329, this time to Bologna to meet Cardinal Bertrand de Pouget.

Villani returned to Florence in 1307 where he married and settled down for a life of city politics.

Although Villani attributed the losses to the companies ' massive monetary loans to Edward III of England which were never repaid, historian Edwin S. Hunt suggests that the firms simply lacked the resources to have made such loans, which in all probability were much smaller and were not the key reasons for the companies ' failures.

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.

Coat of arms for the Arte di Calimala, the guild to which Giovanni Villani belonged

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

Villani is perhaps unequalled for the value of the statistical data he has preserved.

" For example, although Nicolai Rubinstein acknowledged that Villani's chronicles were much more matured and developed than earlier ones, Villani still relied on legend and hearsay to account for the origins of cities such as Fiesole.

The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani is the other prime source for the family's affairs.

Paola Villani suggests that it was used as a chest to store funds for warfare or civil and religious works.