Antonio Pucci
Italian poet
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biography of Giotto
- In Giotto: Early life
…Villani chronicle was produced by Antonio Pucci, town crier of Florence and amateur poet, in which it is stated that Giotto was 70 when he died. This fact would imply that he was born in 1266/67, and it is clear that there was 14th-century authority for the statement (possibly Giotto’s…
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contribution to Italian literature
- In Italian literature: Popular literature and romances
…was bellman and town crier Antonio Pucci, whose vast verse production includes poems on local Florentine lore as well as historical and legendary verse narratives. Florentine narrative literature is represented by the Pecorone (c. 1378; “Dullard”), stories by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino after a pattern set by Boccaccio. In the same…
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