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Albertino Mussato

De gestis Italicorum post Henricum VII Cesarem (Libri I-VII)

A cura di Rino Modonutti

PB pp. XLIV-394, € 58,00

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2018
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978-88-8450-912-3
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The volume contains the first critical edition of books 1-7 of the De gestis Italicorum post Henricum septimum Cesarem by Albertino Mussato (1261-1329), provided with a commentary. The work narrates the troubled events which occurred in central and northern Italy between August 1313 (death of Emperor Henry VII) and the early months of 1316. Within Mussato’s narration, a preferential position is held by Padua, the author’s homeland, involved at the time in a conflict with Cangrande della Scala, and blighted by increasing internal tensions which sometimes lead to bloody upheavals – such as the tumult of April 1314. Mussato also provides a detailed recount of the battle of Montecatini, the exceptional military endeavour of another great Ghibelline, Uguccione della Faggiuola, whose nearly unstoppable ascent is described through a fine political and psychological analysis.
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