Marchionne, di Coppo Stefani, 1336-1385

LC control no.	n 85158410
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Marchionne, di Coppo Stefani, 1336-1385 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Stefani, marchionne di Coppo, approximately 1336-1385 Stefani, marchionne di Coppo, ca. 1336-1385 Marchionne, di Coppo Stefani Buonaiuti, 1336-1385 Bonaiuti, Baldassarre, 1336-1385 Bonaiuti, Baldassarre de', 1336-1385 De' Bonaiuti, Baldassarre, 1336-1385
Other standard no.	000000006121103X
Associated country	Italy
Birth date	1336
Death date	1385
Place of birth	Florence (Italy)
Place of death	Florence (Italy)
Field of activity	Florence (Italy)--History--To 1421 Florence (Italy)--Foreign relations--To 1421 Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--To 1421
Profession or occupation	Historians Politicians Diplomats Businesspeople
Found in	His Istoria fiorentina [MI], 1780: title page (Marchionne di Coppo Stefani) Gr. diz. encic., 3rd ed. (Stefani, Marchionne di Coppo Buonaiuti; ca. 1336-1385) Enciclopedia italiana, viewed online December 5, 2022 (Marchionne di Coppo Stefani; Florentine chronicler; lived from 1336 to 1385; he held public offices in the municipality; his political activity, which unfolded in the years 1376-1382, ended after the Ciompi Revolt; he loved the freedom of the commune but was hostile to the excesses of both democracy and oligarchy, and wanted the authority of the state strengthened; he wrote the Cronica between 1378 and 1385) Wikepedia, viewed December 5, 2022 (Baldassarre Bonaiuti; also known as Marchionne di Coppo Stefani; chronicler, statesman, politician, businessman and diplomat; born in Florence in early 1336; his given birth name was Baldassarre but he preferred to be called Melchioni or Marchionne or Marconne; Marchionne di Coppo Stefani, the pseudonym under which he is best known, derives from a mistake by the first publisher of his literary work, Father Ildefonso di San Luigi, considering "Stefani" erroneously as a family name; he was the son of Coppo Stefani de Buonaiuti and had a political career starting from about 1366, because he was an expert in financial matters; he was most politically active in the 1370s; in 1376 he was his city's ambassador in Bologna during the War of the Eight Saints and was also on various other diplomatic missions in 1379, 1380, and 1381; his only known literary work was Cronaca fiorentina, which includes his first hand account of the Black Death in and around Florence, as well as a history of the city from the earliest times; died in Florence in 1385) Brill Reference Works Online WWW site, viewed December 6, 2022 Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle page (Marchionne di Coppo Stefani; Baldassarre de' Buonaiuti; 1336-1385; a civic chronicler who was prominent in the political life of the Florentine commune, participating in its ruling councils, advising on financial matters, and representing its interests in diplomatic missions to such places as Bologna in 1380 and the court of Wenceslas IV in 1381; at the end of his life he completed the vernacular Cronaca fiorentina which, following a brief description of the creation of the world, treats the history of his city reaching from its foundation to 1384) Storia di Firenze WWW site, viewed December 5, 2022 Storici page (Marchionne di Coppo Stefani; real name Baldassarre de' Bonaiuti; he was born in 1336 to a wealthy family of Florence's ruling class; in the 1370s he was repeatedly chosen to represent the municipality in executive commissions, diplomatic missions, and important political assignments; lacking a real university-type cultural formation, and apparently not inclined in his youth to literary activities, he neverthless breathed the lively vulgar culture widespread among the merchant classes of Florence in the 14th century, distinguishing himself for his oratory skills; the same culture, pragmatic and eclectic, was the basis of his work the Cronaca; he died in 1385)
Associated language	ita