The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman is a treasure of history writing and of medieval Italian literature.
Most famously, it provides our most detailed account of late medieval Rome\'s most famous son.
It offers the most important narrative of late medieval Rome during the Avignon papacy, situating the city in a broadly Mediterranean and European context.
It was written by an unknown fourteenth-century Roman, probably a physician and a first-hand witness to many of the events he records.
The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman is a treasure of history writing and of medieval Italian literature