Padre Placido Puccinelli (Pescia

Pescia

Pescia is an Italian city in the province of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy.It is located in a central zone between the cities Lucca and Florence, on the banks of the homonymous river.-History:...

, 1609 – Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, Badia Fiorentina

Badia Fiorentina

The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante...

, 1685) was a Cassinese monk, a historian

Historian

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 and scholar.

Educated at the abbey of S. Maria in Florence, he began his monastic career on 15 January 1626. He was interested in historical studies, but above all genealogy

Genealogy

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 and prosopography

Prosopography

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, in which the abbey had a great tradition. He modelled his style after that of the historian of Lucca

Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...

, Francesco Maria Fiorentini, whom he befriended. He frequented the then-young Ambrosian Library in Milan

Milan

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, founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo

Federico Borromeo

Federico Borromeo was an Italian ecclesiastic, cardinal and archbishop of Milan.-Biography:Federico Borromeo was born in Milan as the second son of Giulio Cesare Borromeo, Count of Arona, and Margherita Trivulzio...

. For the longest time, he was an intinerant travelling between the cities of northern Italy

Northern Italy

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Works

• Cronica della Badia Fiorentina (1645)
• Istoria delle eroiche azioni della gran dama Willa (1663)
• Memorie di Pescia (1664)
• Istoria delle eroiche azioni di Ugo il Grande (1664)