Dino Compagni

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1. c. 1255–1270Florence · FlorenceCompagni was born into a Florentine merchant family, received a humanist education in his youth, and entered the wool guild, gradually taking part in the city's public life and laying the foundation for his later politics and writing.
2. 1271–1290Florence · FlorenceFrom the 1270s Compagni became deeply involved in the internal Black and White Guelph conflict, supporting the more Ghibelline-leaning Whites, and held important communal offices, personally witnessing the city's factional violence and changes of power.
3. c. 1290–1324Florence · FlorenceIn his later years in Florence he wrote the Chronicle of His Own Times, narrating in prose Florentine domestic and foreign affairs from the 1280s to around 1312, papal and French intervention, and events involving figures such as Dante; it became a classic source for medieval Italian urban history.