Giuliano Ughi della Cavallina

The convent and its extensive surrounding woods had been donated to Saint Francis di Assisi and had become a Franciscan friary in 1212.

Having been abandoned on account of the Black Death, it was revived, rebuilt and embellished and restored to the Franciscans from 1420 by Cosimo de' Medici (the Elder).

Giuliano was a writer whose main work is the Cronica di Firenze (Chronicle of Florence) which covers the years 1501 to 1546.

Among other events, it furnishes details on the successful siege of Florence by imperial troops which returned the exiled Medici to power, and is written in the local dialect of the Mugello region.

One manuscript of the Chronicle is conserved as Florence, Biblioteca Biomedica dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze, Mss.