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Title: Villani's Chronicle

Author: Giovanni Villani

Editor: Philip H. Wicksteed

Translator: Rose E. Selfe

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

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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Transcriber's Note:

This e-book contains numerous sidenotes. Duplicate date sidenotes within a section have been removed.

The last four lines on page 22 in the edition used to prepare this e-book were erroneously duplicated from another page. For details, see the Note at the end of this e-book.

Inconsistent spellings of proper nouns have been retained as they appear in the original, except where clearly incorrect.

CONTENTS

VILLANI’S CHRONICLE

Ditemi dell' ovil di San Giovanni

Quanto era allora, e chi eran le genti

Tra esso degne di più alti scanni

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