Bonifacio da Morano
Bonifacio da Morano (died 1349) was a notary and historian from Modena.
Bonifacio's family came from a place called Morano in the high
Bonifacio wrote a chronicle in Latin entitled Chronica circularis.[2] Although it has the form of a pope-and-emperor chronicle, it is essentially a local chronicle, especially for recent history.[3] It covers the years 1188–1347.[1] He relied on a now lost local history for the period before 1272. His main aim was to provide a chronology of podestàs of Modena, but his account is weighed down by reports on local weather and sermons. He took the side of the nobility against the popular party.[3]
Bonifacio died in 1349, possibly a victim of the Black Death. His executor was the notary Giovanni da Bazzano, a coworker and personal friend who continued the Chronica down to 1363.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b Arnaldi 1970.
- ^ a b Musto 2019, ch. 2.
- ^ a b Cochrane 1981, p. 100, who calls him Bonifazio.
Bibliography
- Arnaldi, Girolamo (1970). "Bonifacio da Morano". ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
- Cochrane, Eric (1981). Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance. University of Chicago Press.
- Musto, Ronald G. (2019). Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno. Routledge.