His life was devoted to commerce, politics, and the Chronicle. Caught up in the economic crises of the 1340s, Villani died of the plague in 1348. He traveled in Flanders and France from 1302 to 1308, and from 1316 until his death he held numerous political offices in the city of Florence. Giovanni Villani was a Florentine merchant whose wide travels gave him an interest in Florence and the world around it. 1270-1348) wrote a history of Florence from its origins to the age of Dante. The Italian chronicler Giovanni Villani (ca.
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