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Chronology
1347–1350 The Black Death strikes Italy; Boccaccio’s Decameron is
published.
1376 Pope Gregory XI returns to Rome.
1378–1381 War of Chioggia establishes Venetian control of eastern
Mediterranean; Peace of Turin ends war.
1378–1382 The Ciompi Revolt and government reforms begin in Florence.
1378–1417 The Great Papal Schism begins and is by Council of Constance
(1414–1418).
1386 Construction of Milan’s great Gothic cathedral begins.
1395 Giangaleazzo Visconti become Duke of Milan.
1397 Medici bank is started.
1397 Manuel Chrysoloras begins teaching of Greek in Florence.
1399–1404 Siena surrenders sovereignty to Visconti of Milan.
1402 Giangaleazzo Visconti’s expansion of Milanese territory ends
with his death near Florence; Filippo Maria Visconti begins
45-year reign.
1405 Venice begins assembling its Terra Firma empire of mainland
possessions.
1406 Florence conquers Pisa.
1420–1436 Filippo Brunelleschi oversees construction of the dome of
Florence Duomo.
1423 Vittorino da Feltre opens first humanist school in Mantua.
1427 Florence’s first catasto tax census provides valuable
demographic data.
1433 Cosimo de’Medici is exiled from Florence.
1434–1494 The Medici control republican Florence.
1436 Leonbattista Alberti publishes On Painting.
