VILLANELLE

originally a round song of 110 Specified formula, but which has become limited in form and shaped after a poem by Jean Pa er at (XVI. cent.), (i.e.) poem composed in tercets, the first and third line being repeated alternately in each tercet, and ending in a quatrain the last two lines of which repeat the first and third lines of the first tercet. Ital. chronicier; 6. Florence. In 1316 he took an active part in the negotiations whereby Pisa, Lucca, and Florence became united, and became prior of the city; app. (1328) to take precautions against the spreading to Florence of the plague which ravaged Italy, and showed great wisdom in his choice of methods. It was this close intimacy with the administration of Florence that enabled him to execute so admirably his great Chronicle or History of Florence.