Piero Vaglienti

Piero Vaglienti (* approx. 1438 ; † after July 15, 1514 ) was a Florentine or Pisan merchant; he is known for his collection of travelogues, the so-called Codice Vaglienti (Biblioteca Riccardiana, ms. 1910).

His father, Giovanni Vaglienti, moved to Pisa in early 1442 , where Piero later completed his commercial training. In 1467 he embarked with his brother on a Florentine ship and traveled the western Mediterranean. Back in Pisa he worked in a bank connected with the Medici, in 1476 he married Francesca Marchionni and thus married into a family that was directly involved in the Portuguese expansion. With the Pisan rebellion against the Florentine rule, Piero and Bernardo got into economic difficulties in 1495 because their goods were looted and confiscated; shortly after Bernardo's death, Piero, himself a father of ten children, also looked after his nephews and nieces. In Florence , where he mostly stayed between 1495 and 1509, Piero had to start all over economically. In 1509 he finally returned to Pisa, where he spent the last years of his life.

For the period from 1495 to July 15, 1514, he described the historical events of his time (modern edition: Storia dei suoi tempi , Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Ms. II.IV42). In addition, he collected contemporary letters from various authors, e. B. by Amerigo Vespucci , who report on the Portuguese and Spanish voyages of discovery ( Codice Vaglienti , period 1499 to 1513). The Codex also contains a contemporary version of the Marco Polo report and extracts from a Tuscan version of Mandeville's travels .

literature

• Piero Vaglienti: Iddio ci dia buon viaggio e guadagno. Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana, ms. 1910 (Codice Vaglienti) . Edizione critica a cura di Luciano Formisano. Firenze 2006.
• Piero Vaglienti: Storia dei suoi tempi: 1492 - 1514 . Pisa 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Vaglienti (2006), pp. 15-16.
2. ↑ See Vaglienti (2006), pp. 16-18.
3. ↑ See Vaglienti (2006), pp. 16-18.