FRANCO See also:

• FRANCO SACCHETTI (c. 1335-c. 1400)

SACCHETTI (c. 1335-c. 1400)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian poet and novelist, was the son of Benci di Uguccione, surnamed " Buono," of the See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble and See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Florentine See also:

• FAMILY

family of the See also:

• SACCHETTI, FRANCO (c. 1335-c. 1400)

Sacchetti (comp . See also:

• DANTE

Dante, See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

Par. c. xvi.), and was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence about the See also:

• YEAR

year 1335 . While still a See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man he achieved repute as a poet, and he appears to have travelled on affairs of more or less importance as far as to See also:

• GENOA (anc. Genua, Ital. Genova, Fr. GPnes)

Genoa, See also:

• MILAN
• MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

Milan and " Ischiavonia." When a See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence of banishment was passed upon the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house of Sacchetti by the Florentine authorities in 1380 it appears that Franco was expressly exempted, " per esser tanto uomo buono,"and in 1383 he was one of the " eight," discharging the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of " See also:

• PRIOR (from Lat. prior—former, and hence superior, through O. Fr. priour)
• PRIOR, MATTHEW (1664-1721)

prior " for the months of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March and See also:

• APRIL

April . In 138he was chosen See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador to Genoa, but preferred-: to go as See also:

• PODESTA (Lat. potestas, power)

podesta to Bibbiena in Casentino . In 1392 he was podesta of See also:

• SAN

San Miniato, and in 1396 he held a similar office at See also:

• FAENZA (anc. Faventia)

Faenza . In 1398 he received from his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-citizens the See also:

• POST

post of See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain of their then See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of Romagna, having his See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence at See also:

• PORTICO (Ital. for " porch," Lat. porticus)

Portico . The date of his See also:

• DEATH

death is unknown; most probably it occurred about 1400, though some writers See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place it as See also:

• LATE

late as 1410 . Sacchetti See also:

• LEFT

left a considerable number of sonnetti, canzoni, ballate, madrigali, &c., which have never been printed, but which are still extant in at least one MS. in the Laurentian library of Florence . His Novelle were first printed in 1724, from the MS. in the same collection, which, however, is far from See also:

• COMPLETE

complete . They See also:

• WARE

ware originally 30o in number, but only 258 in whole or in See also:

• PART

part now survive . They are written in pure and elegant Tuscan, and, based as they are for the most part on real incidents in the public and domestic See also:

• LIFE

life of Florence, they are valuable for the See also:

• LIGHT

light they throw on the See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners of that See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, and occasionally also for the See also:

• BIOGRAPHICAL

biographical facts preserved in them .