Villani's Chronicle. Giovanni Villani
Читать онлайн.| Название | Villani's Chronicle |
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| Автор произведения | Giovanni Villani |
| Жанр | Документальная литература |
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| Издательство | Документальная литература |
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| isbn | 4057664610263 |
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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
EAN 4057664610263
Table of Contents
§ 3. The Principle of Selection.
§ 4. The Historical Value of Villani’s Chronicle.
§ 5. The Rationale of the Revolutions of Florence. [2]
SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRONICLES OF VILLANI
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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 |
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