Pisan Chronicles from the mid-fourteenth century

The earliest accounts that relate the foundation of the Camposanto to earth brought from the Holy Land are to be found in a group of anonymous chronical texts that were composed in two slightly different versions in 1342 and 1354. As in the Lucca chronicle, they state that the Camposanto had been founded in 1200,…Continue reading

Anonymous, Breviarium Pisanae Historiae (c. 1269)

Like other early sources, this text comes from an intense activity of local chronicling by typically-anonymous authors who compiled older material and expanded it with material from their own lifetime. In contrast to later versions of the fourteenth century, this chronicle gives us an idea of how the role of the Pisan fleet in the…Continue reading

Written Camposanto

The Pisan Cemetery through the Eyes of Chroniclers, Artists and Travelers

Category: 13th century

Pisan Chronicles from the mid-fourteenth century

Anonymous, Breviarium Pisanae Historiae (c. 1269)