Anonymous Pisan (14^th century)

During fourteenth-century Pisa, against the backdrop of a distinctive political and institutional framework marked by the rise of seigniorial rather than senatorial power, art assumed a central role.

In this ferment of political activity and culture, Pisa was populated by a crowd of writers, copyists and translators, either native to the city or drawn there by its artistic vitality. Their names are difficult to identify, known only through a few brief subscriptions and late medieval codices. Nonetheless, traces of their presence have reached us – heirs to their works, bearing the identity and symbolic value of the city’s independence, which would not fall under Florentine control until 1406.

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