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2 unusual facts about Florentine Histories


Florentine Histories

The first of the eight books is a general picture of the history of Europe from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to 1215; the second book actually begins to discuss the history of Florence, with the narration of the feud between Buondelmenti/Donati and Uberti/Amidei, that according to tradition corroborated by Dante would unchain the conflict between Guelphs and Ghibellines in the city.

At the end of that year, Cardinal Giulio de Medici, later Pope Clement VII, commissioned him history of Florence.



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