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Ventura, Guglielmo

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Author(s): Luongo, Alberto
ca 1250 - ca 1322. Italy. Believed to be an ancestor of Secondino Ventura. Guglielmo Ventura was a citizen of Asti, a merchant of spices, and an active member of the Popolo of Asti who held several important posts for the Commune. He wrote a town chronicle in an often incorrect Latin prose, the last part of which was finished by another hand.The Memoriale, arranged in 114 chapters, covers the years 1261-1325. Ventura bases his work on his memories and the oral reports he heard during his commercial travels. He concentrates his narration on the history of hi…
Date: 2021-04-15

Ventura, Secondino

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Author(s): Luongo, Alberto
d. 1469/70. Italy. Traditionally identified as a descendant of Guglielmo Ventura. Notary in Asti, and chronicler of the region. In 1441 he was nominated fiscal agent for the city and the county of Asti by Charles Duke of Orléans. We have a document testifying to his appointment as judge of the urban taxes, and to his death in office.His Memoriale covers the years 1420-57 and is based on the memory and the experiences of the author. Unlike the previous chroniclers of Asti, Secondino does not concentrate his narration on the local events of his hometown.…
Date: 2021-04-15

Alfieri, Ogerio

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Author(s): Luongo, Alberto
d. 1295. Northern Italy. Town chronicler of the Commune of Asti, a notary and a high-ranking official of the town. In 1293 he appears as the archivist ( sacrista) of the Commune, with the task of preserving and ordering the documentation of his town.Alfieri's Latin Chronica civitatis astensis (Chronicles of the city of Asti), probably an excerpt from a lost original work, was placed at the beginning of a Liber iurium, a collection of documents of the Commune, probably compiled by him. The chronicle is structured in 44 short chapters, recounting the events of the h…
Date: 2021-04-15