Galvano Fiamma
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Galvano Fiamma was an Italian Domincan and chronicler of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

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He was chaplain to the Milanese lord Galeazzo II Visconti
Galeazzo II Visconti
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He wrote several chronicles dealing with the history of Milan and exalting the Visconti
House of Visconti
Visconti is the family name of two important Italian noble dynasties of the Middle Ages. There are two distinct Visconti families: The first one in the Republic of Pisa in the mid twelfth century who achieved prominence first in Pisa, then in Sardinia where they became rulers of Gallura...

, who by his day had in effect become its ruling dynasty.

His numerous historical writings include the Chronica Galvagnana, the Chronicon extravagans de antiquitatibus Mediolani, the Chronicon maius, and the Manipolus florum seu Historia Mediolanensis; he is also known for a map of Milan c1330.

He died in Milan in 1344.

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