Villani, Filippo

Date born: 1325?

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Date died:  1405?

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Florentine writer whose guide to Florence (De origine civitatis Florentinae, ca.1400 ) includes a list of artists and their careers.  These include Ciomabue, Giotto, and Taddeo Gaddi.  Villani lacks the synthesis of earlier writers.

Home Country:  Italy (Florence)

Sources:  La letteratura artistica:  Manuale delle fonti della storia dell'arte moderna.  Revised and edited by Otto Kurz.  Florence:  La Nuova Italia, 1964, p. 52.  Kultermann, Udo.  The History of Art History.  New York:  Abaris, 1993, p. 5.

Bibliography:  Liber de origine civitatis Florentiae et eiusdem famosis civibus (codex Laurentian Library)