13th century Italy
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La ricerca di carattere prosopografico e geografico-storico mostra che sull’area di Bagno a Ripoli (SE di Firenze) la città esercitò un’attrazione forte e abbastanza precoce. Nella zona la presenza patrimoniale dell’aristocrazia cittadina... more
File PDF 1: Copertina versione inglese. File PDF 2: Testo versione italiana della pubblicazione originale in lingua inglese: Sedes Sapientiae. A study of a thirteenth century Umbro-Abruzzese wooden sculpture, Eventi & Progetti Editore,... more
By the time the marble decoration of San Miniato al Monte was completed – much earlier than Giotto and Dante’s time – Florence had become an economic and military power. By studying thousands of notarial acts, the volume aims at... more
This paper presents a comparative analysis of six dicta testium from the Tuscia from 1177 to 1237, highlighting fascinating elements of political language and discourse. For instance, the study of a particular theme (violent conflict) and... more
Si tratta di un'indagine sulla fisionomia socio-economica di 60 famiglie appartenenti al gruppo dirigente fiorentino tra 1170 e 1211. Se ne presentano sinteticamente i risultati. 1) Al momento del primo incarico pubblico circa la metà... more
This paper outlines the relations between the Passignano monastery (an important centre of religious and seigneurial power in the Florentine territory) and the city of Florence. These relations appear to be fairly regular until the end of... more
The entire Christianity lived, in late ' 200 and the beginning of the ' 300, a quick and extremely brutal series of events which saw as protagonists Boniface VIII and the House of Colonna. These events, some of which are extremely... more
Unpublished paper, submitted in 2012 as thesis for the POSDRU scholarship at "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History in Bucharest.
What was the real story behind Buondelmonte de’ Buondelmonti’s condemnation, attributed to Cacciaguida in Paradiso, xvi, 136–147? The major Florentine chronicles of Dante’s era (Compagni) and thenceforth (Villani, Stefani) paint a picture... more
In un certo numero di città italiane, tra Duecento e Trecento il potere politico è assunto da un signore, al quale i consigli comunali conferiscono l’arbitrium (e ai quali più tardi, ai primi del Trecento, il potere imperiale o papale... more
Der vorliegende Band gewinnt über die Vita Papst Gregors IX. und in Auseinandersetzung mit etlichen weiteren Quellen grundlegende Einsichten in den Pontifikat Gregors IX. Untersucht werden die Entstehung- und Überlieferungsgeschichte der... more
Historiographical research into the Italian comuni has aimed to find a common denominator behind the proliferation of the town annals and chronicles from the early 12th century onwards. The trigger has been ascribed here and there to the... more
Studiare le vicende di Cividale del Friuli nei secoli centrali del Medioevo è come cercare di ricollocare le tessere di un mosaico distrutto. I protagonisti sulla scena erano enti religiosi, tra loro complementari, ma spesso in conflitto:... more
The six years in which Florence was under the dominion of the Ghibellines (1260-–1266) are surprisingly devoid of written records. Later chroniclers paint a picture of a dispirited Florence whose 'Popolo' had lost all representation and... more
Between 1250 and 1266 the marquis Oberto Pelavicino became lord of some of the main cities in Lombardy of the thir- teenth-century, after holding the title of imperial Vicar under the reign of Federico II and Corrado IV: Cremona,... more
This article compares the information in the oldest historiographical work from the city-state of Florence – the Gesta Florentinorum, written in the early 13th century by the judge and notary Sanzanome – with testimonies taken down in... more
Examination of the chronicles and annals of the first age of the Italian city-states show that the vast majority were written after 1150, when the number of trial documents filed away in private archives and the new public archives... more