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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Giovanni d'Andrea, John de Stratford, Giovanni Villani, Alice de Lacy, 3rd Countess of Lincoln, Barlaam of Seminara, Joan of England, Abner of Burgos, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, John Angelos, Emperor Hanazono, Joan the Lame, Gerardus Odonis, Al-Dhahabi, Blanche of Valois, Martanda Cinkaiariyan, Sesson Y bai, Bernardo Tolomei, Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon, Gentile da Foligno, Thomas de Rossy, Binnya E Law, Elisabeth of widnica, Pietro Lorenzetti, Ugolino Brunforte, Mladen III ubi of Bribir, Narimantas, Isabella of France, Dauphine of Viennois, Kusunoki Masatsura, Gregory Akindynos, Walter Maule, Charles, Duke of Durazzo, Laura de Noves, Bernardo Daddi, Adolf IX of Berg, Simon of Cascia, Ferrer Bassa, Maso di Banco, Gauscelin de Jean, Chungmok of Goryeo, Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Arnau Bassa, Kusunoki Masaie, Ibn al-Wardi, John, Duke of Randazzo, Umur the Lion, Danishmendji, Silvester of Valdiseve, Manvydas, Giolla na Naomh O Cianain, Bianca of Burgundy. Excerpt: Giovanni Villani (c. 1276 or 1280-1348, Italian pronunciation: ) was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica (New Chronicles) on the history of Florence. He was a leading statesman of Florence but later gained an unsavory reputation and served time in prison as a result of the bankruptcy of a trading and banking company he worked for. His interest in and elaboration of economic details, statistical information, and political and psychological insight mark him as a more modern chronicler of late medieval Europe. His Cronica is viewed as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history. However, historian Kenneth R. Bartlett notes that, in contrast to his Renaissance-era successors, "his reliance on such elements as Divine Providence links Villani closely with the me...
