Note 7 — EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I. (continued 3)
Henry Yule translation
G. Villani died in the great plague of 1348. But his book was begun soon after Marco’s was written, for he states that it was the sight of the memorials of greatness which he witnessed at Rome, during the Jubilee of 1300, that put it into his head to write the history of the rising glories of Florence, and that he began the work after his return home. (Bk. VIII. ch. 36.)