The diary of Luca Landucci is out of print and hard to find, but well worth a trip to the library if getting into microscopic detail of events in Renaissance Florence is your cup of tea. It’s of particular interest because Landucci writes relatively little about his personal life in his journal: but he writes a lot about current events and his reactions to them. I use Luca to fill us in on key events—the entry of the French into Florence and their exit, and the death of Savonarola—that occur in the years between the Pazzi Conspiracy and our eponymous hero’s entry onto our stage.
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