# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-villani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:53:19.537Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-villani"
name: "Giovanni Villani"
slug: "giovanni-villani"
description: "Giovanni Villani was an Italian banker, official, diplomat and chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica on the history of Florence. He was a leading statesman of Florence but later gained an unsavoury reputation and served time in prison as a result of the bankruptcy of a trading and banking company he worked for. His interest in and elaboration of economic details, statistical information, and political and psychological insight mark him as a more modern chronicler of late medieval Europe. His Cronica is viewed as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history.\nHowever, historian Kenneth R. Bartlett notes that, in contrast to his Renaissance-era successors, \"his reliance on such elements as divine providence links Villani closely with the medieval vernacular chronicle tradition.\" In recurring themes made implicit through significant events described in his Cronica, Villani also emphasized three assumptions about the relationship of sin and morality to historical events, these being that excess brings disaster, that forces of right and wrong are in constant struggle, and that events are directly influenced by the will of God."
tagline: "Italian merchant and historical writer (1280-1348)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Logge_del_mercato_nuovo%2C_statua_di_giovanni_villani_di_gaetano_trentanove%2C_1889-1892%2C_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1280"
deathDate: "1348"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.54
  momentum:             0.7910321489001693
  historical:           21.491836
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump