Giovanni Sercambi

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Lucca in the Chronicle of Giovanni Sercambi, Lucca State Library, Ms. 107, f. 69r

Giovanni Sercambi (* 1348 in Lucca ; † 1424 ibid) was an Italian writer and statesman .

Sercambi was born in Lucca, was a supporter of the ruling Guinigi family and served as a soldier and public official. He is best known for his work "Novelle". He also wrote the "Chronica delle cose di Lucca", a history of his city from 1164 to 1423, and "Monito", a treatise on the origins.

Works

  • Novella . Romagnoli, Bologna 1968 (reprint of the Bologna 1871 edition)
  • Novella. Nuovo testo critico con studio introduttivo e note . Edizione Le Lettere, Florence 1995, ISBN 88-7166-231-8 (2 vols.)
  • The launch . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1980.

literature

  • Guido Beretta (Ed.): Contributo all'opera novellistica di Giovanni Sercambi . Gaggini-Bizzozero, Lugano 1968
  • Rodolfo Renier (Ed.): Novelle inedite di Giovanni Sercambi . Loescher, Turin 1889
  • Piotr Salwa: Narrazione, persuasione, ideologia. Una lettura del novelliere the Giovanni Sercambi, lucchese . Pacini Fazzi, Lucca 1991, ISBN 88-7246-037-9

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ME Bratche (ed.): Medieval Lucca: And the evolution of the Renaissance State . New edition edition. OUP Oxford, 2008, 2008, ISBN 0-19-954290-2 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  2. ^ Salvatore Bongi: Di Paolo Guinigi e delle sue ricchezze discorso di Salvatore Bongi colla giunta di documenti . Tip. Benedetti-Guidotti, 1871 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Chronicles of Lucca by Giovanni Sercambi . 1368 ( ziereisfacsimiles.com [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Giovanni Sercambi's Chronicle of the History of Lucca. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sercambi, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 1348
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucca
DATE OF DEATH 1424
Place of death Lucca