description: This book is called the New Chronicle, in which many past things are treated of, and especially the roots and origins of the city of Florence; then all the changes through which it has passed and shall pass in the course of time: begun to be compiled in the year of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, 1300.
title: Villani's Chronicle; Being Selections from the First Nine Books of the Croniche Fiorentine
publisher: London Constable