MINIATURIST, Italian
(active 1390s in Padua)

Chronica de Carrarensibus

1390s
Manuscript (Lat. X. 381)
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

This manuscript contains two chronicles by an anonymous author, in Latin and Italian, concerning the Carrara family who ruled Padua from 1318 to 1406. It was dedicated to Francesco Novello da Carrara, and it is decorated with four miniatures executed in Padua.

Folio 2 shows a thronging crowd witnessing the election of Jacopo il Grande da Carrara as Captain of the people in 1318.