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Title: Villani's Chronicle
Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani

Author: Giovanni Villani

Editor: Philip H. Wicksteed

Release Date: July 8, 2010 [eBook #33022]

Language: English

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VILLANI'S CHRONICLE

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

Translated by Rose E. Selfe

and

Edited by Philip H. Wicksteed M.A.

London
Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd.
1906

SECOND EDITION

Carefully Revised

Ditemi dell' ovil di San Giovanni
Quanto era allora, e chi eran le genti
Tra esso degne di piu alti scanni

[Illustration]

PREFATORY NOTE

The Editor is responsible for the selection of the passages
translated, and