Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence

142 Pages·1986·7.09 MB·English

by  Dino Compagni, Daniel E. Bornstein (transl.)

DINOCOMPAGNI'S
CHRONICLE OF FLORENCE
The Middle Ages
a series edited by
EDWARD PETERS
DINO COMPAGNI'S
CHRONICLE OF FLORENCE
TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,
BY DANIEL E. BORNSTEIN
W University of Pennsylvania Press • Philadelphia • 1986
Copyright © 1986 by the University of Pennsylvania Press
All rights reserved
Designed by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Compagni, Dino, 1260 (ca.)-1324.
Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence.
(The Middle Ages)
Translation of: Cronica delle cose occorrenti ne'
tempi suoi.
Includes index.
1. Florence (Italy)—History—To 1421. I. Title.
II. Title: Chronicle of Florence. III. Series.
DG737.2.C73213 1986 945'.51 85-29517
ISBN 0-8122-8012-1 (alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8122-1221-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
For Eric Cochrane
dedicated historian
and
buon dttadino popolano
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix
INTRODUCTION
xi
DINO COMPAGNI'S CHRONICLE OF
FLORENCE
PROLOGUE
3
BOOK I
5
BOOK II
33
BOOK III
63
INDEX
103
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