Antonio Pucci (c. 1310 – 1388) was a Florentine poet during the Renaissance.
Biography[]
Career[]
Around 1380, Antonio Pucci published Le proprietà di Mercato Vecchio, a poem about a year within the marketplace of Florence.[1] The eleventh stanza of the poem in particular, mentioned the list of occupations and tradesmen in the marketplace.[2]
Legacy[]
In a 2012 Database entry for the Mercato Vecchio written by Shaun Hastings, he quoted the eleventh stanza of Le proprietà di Mercato Vecchio; "Physicians dwelt around for every ill, And here were linen cloths, and flax merchants, pork vendors, and apothecaries."[3]
Appearances[]
- Assassin's Creed II (mentioned in Database entry only)
References[]
- ↑ Rauchhaus, M.; Colbertaldo, R.. Florence as the Capital of Poverty and Abundance in Antonio Pucci’s "Proprietà di Mercato Vecchio". Goethe-Universität International Workshop 8th-11th September 2021. Retrieved on 27 January 2024.
- ↑ Horner, Joanna B. (1884). Walks in Florence and its environs. Retrieved on 27 January 2024.
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Database: Mercato Vecchio