Daily Medieval

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375) was eight years old when Dante died, but he revered the man and wrote a biography about him. He even gave ...

The Medici family name is known to many casual readers of history. Let's talk about the man who started it all. Born on 27 Septembe...

One of the very first posts on this blog years ago was about the collapse of the powerful Florentine banking corporation, the Bardi . One o...

The Collapse of the 1340s Florence was the headquarters for some powerful families in the Middle Ages who used their wealth and business a...