The Medieval Roman hero: Cola di Rienzo

The life of Cola di Renzo, but the original name is Nicole of Lorenz(1313-1354 is told from an anonymous writer may from Bologna, Cola was a popular man that the Roman people identified  to his nature and in fact the writer said: Cola of Renzo was popular man, his father was host and his mother washerwoman  of this origin he confessed his shame: “I have begun from  a moment of my life I felt the shame for my popular life and I begun acculturate reading the classics books…” this confession is meaningful  because shows the real motive for the necessity of culture. Other certainty  is the narration of the meeting to the pope Clemens 6^th (1291-1352) that reproached the senators of Rome because they don’t  think to Rome and other step, following  the precedent, where the  anonymous mentions the name  of an important employed of Senate of Rome Thomas from Fortiocca, unknown absolutely but useful here for to ascertain that Cola has told this episode, because he reports the words, and the name, hence he was present to this discussion to pope, because he is s direct witness. Naturally Medieval narration also took legendary steps from Isidore from Seville, and the author manifests his egocentrism very great because he compares herself  to the ancient histories men as Herodotus, and Livius, and he said about herself that he stem from a noble family, but a noble during the Middle age would have written in Latin, and not certainly in Italian of 14^th century. But some information regard to Rome is interesting because in front of the church of Saint Spirit  the church of Saxon people was a ditch. The boredom  of Middle age is in the tales that regard other cities, as Ferrara and Bologna , because in Rome evidently nothing occurred. A monk came to Rome for pilgrim and our author is very precise for description of cloths, hence he has seen him. And some other note can be interesting for the builds of two churches, this is Saint John of Lateran and Saint Peter, because pope Benedict 12^th made completely the roofs, it is a poor note that is useful fro the history of these churches , the architect was Jehan Poisson, the architect of pope, in years 1341, and a worker  that the documents mention as master Ballus that it isn’t the name of worker but certainly a fake name. This history is certainly true because the author was witness for the major part of events; and the pragmatic wit emerges from a information, during the female in Rome, in year 1338, the women  became prostitute for the necessity, certainly unhappy but shows the practical wit of being man.  

Alessandro Lusana