Luca Landucci

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Luca Landucci (* 1436 in Florence ; † 1516 ibid.) Was a Florentine dealer for spices and chronicler of the Renaissance .

Little is known about him, he went to a master Calandro in an arithmetic school in 1450 and entered the grocery store of Francesco di Francesco on January 1st, 1452, located on the Mercato Vecchio in Florence.

He married in 1456. This marriage had 12 children, seven of whom survived. He opened his own shop with his wife's dowry.

The most important legacy is his diary, which he kept from October 15, 1450 until his death at the end of May / beginning of June 1516 and in which he meticulously recorded all the important events of this time. His Diario fiorentino , published for the first time by Isidoro del Badia in 1883 (Verlag GC Sansoni / Florence), which was continued by an unknown until the end of 1542, is one of the most important sources on the history of the Italian Renaissance . In his diary he wrote history not from a “partisan” point of view, but as a cautious observer of everyday things such as big politics, which makes his Florentine diary an important historical testimony as a neutral source.

In his memory, a street in Florence, Via Luca Landucci , was named after him.

Editions and translations

  • Iodoco Del Badia (ed.): Luca Landucci: Diario fiorentino dal 1450 al 1516. Continuato da un anonimo fino al 1542. Pubblicato sui codici della Comunale di Siena e della Marucelliana. Con annotazioni. Sansoni, Florence 1883. Digitized
  • Marie Herzfeld (translator): Luca Landucci: A Florentine diary 1450–1516 with an anonymous continuation 1516–1542 (= The Age of the Renaissance , Series 1, Volume 5). Diederichs, Jena 1927, new edition Düsseldorf / Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-424-00633-5 .

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SURNAME Landucci, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Florentine grocer and writer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 1436
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH 1516
Place of death Florence