Venice in the Middle Ages

The atlas holds 5 people and 14 moments here, from 1220 to 1372. The most recorded lives are Marco Polo, Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio.

Marco Polo
from 1254 to 1324
6 moments here
Venetian merchant, traveler, and author whose account describes journeys across Asia between 1271 and 1295.…
Petrarch
from 1321 to 1372
4 moments here
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) was an Italian scholar, poet, cleric, diplomat, and foundational humanist.…
Giovanni Boccaccio
from 1363 to 1367
2 moments here
Italian writer, poet, and humanist, best known for the Decameron. His documented life moved between Florence, Naples, Romagna, papal Avignon and…
Dante Alighieri
in 1321
1 moment here
Florentine poet, prose writer, philosopher, and statesman whose Divine Comedy became a foundational work of Italian and European literature.…
Francis of Assisi
in 1220
1 moment here
Italian Catholic friar, deacon, preacher, and founder of the Order of Friars Minor. Born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone at Assisi, he renounced his…