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How Pope Clement VI annouced the Jubilee in Rome in 1350

Giovanni Villani, Cronica di Giovanni Villani a miglior lezione ridotta coll'aiuto de' testi a penna, vol. VII, Firenze 1823

Chronicle, by Giovanni Villani

Giovanni Villani (1276-1348), from Florence, was one of the main Italian chroniclers of his time. His Chronicle is a universal history centred on the city of Florence. Largely based on his personal experience, the work is full of details on economic and social apects which were often neglected by contemporary chroniclers. He admitted that he was prompted to write his Chronicle by the great historians of Ancient Rome, while he was in Rome as a pilgrim during the Jubilee of 1300. Villani gave a short but lively account of the Jubilee ("for I was there and I saw it"), especially the huge inflow of pilgrims

Giovanni Villani, Cronica di Giovanni Villani a miglior lezione ridotta coll'aiuto de' testi a penna, vol. III, Firenze 1823