Villani's Chronicle. Giovanni Villani

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Название Villani's Chronicle
Автор произведения Giovanni Villani
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       Giovanni Villani

      Villani's Chronicle

      Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664610263

       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

       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.

       Canzoni .

       Sonnet .

       Vita Nuova .

       Convivio .

       De Monarchia .

       De Vulgari Eloquio .

       Epistolæ .

       Quæstia de Aqua et Terra .

       Johannes de Virgilio .

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Introduction xxv
BOOK I.
This book is called the New Chronicle, in which many past things are treated of, and especially the root and origins of the city of Florence; then all the changes through which it has passed and shall pass in the course of time: begun to be compiled in the year of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1300. Here begins the preface and the First Book.
§ 1. 1
§ 2.How through the confusion of the Tower of Babel the world began to be inhabited 2
§ 5.Of the third part of the world called Europe, and its boundaries 4
§ 7.How King Atlas first built the city of Fiesole 4
§ 8.How Atlas had three sons, Italus and Dardanus and Sicanus 6
§ 9.How Italus and Dardanus came to agree which should succeed to the city of Fiesole and the kingdom of Italy 7
§ 10.How Dardanus came to Phrygia and built the city of Dardania, which was afterwards the great Troy 8
§ 11.How Dardanus had a son which was named Tritamus, which was the father of Trojus, after whose name the city of Troy was so called 8