{"id":344,"date":"2020-03-27T21:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-06-21T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T20:29:54","slug":"medieval-italian-civic-chronicles-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/medieval-italian-civic-chronicles-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Civic Chronicles from Medieval Italy, by Carrie Bene\u0161 and Laura Morreale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Civic Chronicles from Medieval Italy, Part 1\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p9wDbp9ENAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacopo da Varagine,&nbsp;<em>Chronicle of Genoa,<\/em>&nbsp;trans. C.&nbsp;Bene\u0161&nbsp;(Manchester, 2020). <a href=\"http:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1Y3bnDX1XlFJ_1g4GIRMwpSVev-YcwTnT\">Parts 1 and 5<\/a>, Full text at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchesterhive.com\/view\/9781526142900\/9781526142900.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester Hive.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin da Canal,&nbsp;<em>Les Estoires De Venise<\/em>, trans. Laura K. Morreale (UNIPRESS, 2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/da-canal_celebration-in-venice\/\">Book II, Chapters 112-134.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giovanni Villani, <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ExcerptsfromVillaniBk3.pdf\">Excerpts from Book III<\/a>. From&nbsp;<em>Villani\u2019s Chronicle: Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine by Giovanni Villani<\/em>, trans. R. Selfe and P. Wicksteed (2nd ed., London, 1906; repr. online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/33022\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>, 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does the chronicler characterize his town? Who populates the history of this town? Which kinds of events are included in the narrative (and by extension, which are excluded)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For Further Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katherine Jansen, Joanna Drell, and Frances Andrews (eds.),&nbsp;<em>Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation<\/em>. (Penn, 2009). Not online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dino Compagni,&nbsp;<em>Chronicle of Florence<\/em>, trans. D. Bornstein (Penn, 1980).&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt130jv8s\" target=\"_blank\">Book on JSTOR.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trevor Dean,&nbsp;<em>The Towns of Italy in the Later Middle Ages<\/em>&nbsp;(Manchester, 2000).&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchesterhive.com\/view\/9781526112644\/9781526112644.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester Hive.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To cite this page: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bene\u0161, Carrie and Morreale, Laura.  \u201cMedieval Italian Civic Chronicles, Part 1,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Middle Ages for Educators<\/em>, March 27, 2020. Accessed [date]. <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/medieval-italian-civic-chronicles-part-1\/\">http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/videos\/medieval-italian-civic-chronicles-part-1\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacopo da Varagine,&nbsp;Chronicle of Genoa,&nbsp;trans. C.&nbsp;Bene\u0161&nbsp;(Manchester, 2020). Parts 1 and 5, Full text at Manchester Hive. Martin da Canal,&nbsp;Les Estoires De Venise, trans. Laura K. Morreale (UNIPRESS, 2009). Book II, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[40,32,38,41,42,37,35,34,39,33,36,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.lauramorreale.com\/middleagesforeducators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}