Landucci, Luca ___ 1436g-1516 ___ Italian ___ tradesman

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is not much information about Landucci on the internet, except that contained in the few diary extracts available. He lived in Florence, was trained as a bookkeeper and ran a small chemist's shop. His diary focuses on the cycle of daily events, which seem to have been much affected not only by plague but by raids and sieges on Florence. The published version of his diary also contains a additional diary entries to 1542 by an anonymous writer. It was translated into English in 1927 by Alice de Rosen Jervis.
A biography link (in Italian)
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1450-1516 ___ military social commerce health

WEB TEXT LINKS
etext
long extract
some quotes

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Magdalene College, Cambridge University

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
A Florentine Diary from 1450 to 1516
 

May 2005, July 2008
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