Chronica parva Ferrariensis

The Chronica parva Ferrariensis was a short chronicle of the history of Ferrara up to 1264 written by Riccobaldo da Ferrara in the years 1313-17. The chronicler tends to laud the "good old days", and deprecate contemporary Ferrara as fallen away from its former glory, as when he writes of the years before 1240: "At that time the Ferrarese republic was propsering, and its citizens were enjoying wealth and peace."^[1] It was included by Ludovico Muratori in his Rerum italicarum Scriptores, and was edited by Gabriele Zanella in 1983.

Notes

1. ^ Nicolai Rubinstein, Studies in Italian history in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, vol. 1, ser. ed. Giovanni Ciappelli (Editrice di Storia e Letteratura, 2004), 44 and 113: Huius pacis tempore floruit respublica Ferrariensis et cives bonorum copia fruebantur et pace. Nemo nisi facinorosus et scelestus exulabat a patria.

Bibliography

• A. F. Massèra. "L'autenticità della Chronica parva ferrariensis", Archivio Muratoriano, 10 (n.d.), 551 ff.
• A. Teresa Hankey. Riccobaldo of Ferrara: His Life, Works and Influence (Rome: Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 1996).