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Giovanni Sercambi

Italian historian and novelist

Field	Value
name	Giovanni Sercambi
image	Lucca-Sercambi.jpg
caption	Historical image of Lucca, manuscript illumination, in Giovanni Sercambi, Croniche, Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 107
birth_date
birth_place	Lucca, Republic of Lucca (now in Tuscany, Italy)
death_date
death_place	Lucca, Republic of Lucca (now in Tuscany, Italy)
occupation	Writer, poet, politician
language	Italian (Tuscan)
period	Early Renaissance
genres
movement	Italian Renaissance
years_active	From 1369
notable_works	Il novelliere

Giovanni Sercambi (18 February 134727 May 1424) was an Italian author from Lucca who wrote a history of his city, Le croniche di Luccha, as well as Il novelliere (or Novelle), a collection of 155 tales.

Biography

Of modest origins, Sercambi rose to become Gonfaloniere of Justice in 1400. He played a key role in the rise to power of Paolo Guinigi, who became the effective lord of Lucca on 21 November 1400 when he received the titles of Capitano e Difensore del Popolo. Later, estranged from the regime and excluded from power, he devoted himself to literature. He died in 1424, and was buried in the Chiesa di San Matteo.

Works

Sercambi composed Le croniche di Luccha from until his death from plague in 1424. The wonderfully illuminated manuscript of the Croniche (which cover the years 1164 to 1424), is preserved in the State Archives of Lucca.

The unfinished Il novelliere has a frame story based on Boccaccio's Decameron, in which the storytellers flee the Lucca to avoid the plague of 1374. The stories are remarkably varied in their sources, but written in a perhaps deliberately unelaborate fashion, with morals appended that can seem at odds with their sometimes scabrous contents. One of the stories, La novella d'Astolfo, is notable for showing parallels with the tale of Shahriyar and Shahzaman in the One Thousand and One Nights. The eleventh story in Novelle is a variant of Aarne-Thompson-Uther tale type 513A, "Six Go Through the Whole World".

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