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[[Image:Franco Sacchetti.jpg|right|frame|Franco Sacchetti.]]
'''Franco Sacchetti''' ({{IPA-|it|ˈfraŋko sakˈketti}}; c. 1335 – c. 1400), was an [[Italy|Italian]] poet and novelist.▼
 
▲'''Franco Sacchetti''' ({{IPA-it|ˈfraŋko sakˈketti}}; c. 1335 – c. 1400), was an [[Italy|Italian]] poet and novelist.
 
==Biography==
[[File:Sacchetti, Franco – La battaglia delle belle donne, 1938 – BEIC 1909374.pdf|thumb|''La battaglia delle belle donne'', published by Laterza, 1938]]
Born in [[Florence]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/515218/Franco-Sacchetti#tab=active~checked%2Citems~checked&title=Franco%20Sacchetti%20--%20Britannica%20Online%20Encyclopedia Encyclopædia Britannica]</ref> or in [[Ragusa (Croatia)|Ragusa]]<ref>[http://books.google.it/books?id=v6dnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22franco+sacchetti%22+dubrovnik&dq=%22franco+sacchetti%22+dubrovnik&ei=4kPHS4GoL4TcygSP4_mrCA&cd=3 Bariša Krekić, Dubrovnik, Italy, and the Balkans in the late Middle Ages]</ref> (modern Dubrovnik), he was the son of Benci di Uguccione, surnamed ''"Buono"'', Florentine merchant of the noble and ancient family of the Sacchetti. While still a young man he achieved repute as a poet, and he appears to have traveled on affairs of more or less importance as far as to [[Genoa]], [[Milan]] and [[Slavonia]].▼
 
[[File:Sacchetti, Franco – Il libro delle rime, 1936 – BEIC 1908259.pdf|thumb|''Il libro delle rime'', published by Laterza, 1936]]
After 1363 he settled in Florence. When a sentence of banishment was passed upon the rest of the house of Sacchetti by the Florentine authorities in 1380 (after the [[Ciompi]] revolt) it appears that Sacchetti was expressly exempted, ''per esser tanto uomo buono'' ("because he is a real good man"), and in 1383 he was one of the eight, discharging the office of prior for the months of March and April. ▼
 
▲Born in [[Florence]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/515218/Franco-Sacchetti#tab=active~checked%2Citems~checked&title=Franco%20Sacchetti%20--%20Britannica%20Online%20Encyclopedia Encyclopædia Britannica]</ref>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} or in [[Ragusa (Croatia)|Ragusa]]<ref>[httphttps://books.google.itcom/books?id=v6dnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22franco+sacchetti%22+dubrovnik&dq=%22franco+sacchetti%22+dubrovnik&ei=4kPHS4GoL4TcygSP4_mrCA&cd=3 Bariša Krekić, Dubrovnik, Italy, and the Balkans in the late Middle Ages]</ref> (modern [[Dubrovnik]]), he was the son of Benci di Uguccione, surnamed ''"Buono"'', a Florentine merchant of the noble and ancient family of the Sacchetti. He was married three times; first to Maria Felice Strozzi with whom he had two sons, Filippo and Niccolo. Franco’s second wife was Ghita di Piero Gherardini, his third wife was Giovanna di Francesco Bruni. He was the brother of Giannozzo Sacchetti, a follower of [[Catherine of Siena]], who was executed following the [[Ciompi Revolt]]. While still a young man he achieved repute as a poet, and he appears to have traveled on affairs of more or less importance as far as to [[Genoa]], [[Milan]] and [[Slavonia]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
In 1386 he was chosen ambassador to Genoa, but preferred to go as ''[[podestà]]'' to [[Bibbiena]] in Casentino. In 1392 he was podestà of [[San Miniato]], and in 1396 he held a similar office at [[Faenza]]. In 1398 he received from his fellow-citizens the post of captain of their then province of [[Romagna]], having his residence at [[Portico e San Benedetto|Portico]]. The date of his death is unknown; most probably it occurred about 1400, though some writers place it as late as 1410.▼
 
▲After 1363 he settled in Florence. When a sentence of banishment was passed upon the rest of the house of Sacchetti by the Florentine authorities in 1380 (after the [[Ciompi]] revolt) it appears that Sacchetti was expressly exempted, ''per esser tanto uomo buono'' ("because he is a realvery good man"), and in 1383 he was one of the eight, discharging the office of prior for the months of March and April. {{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
He wrote sonnets, canzoni, madrigals, and other poems; his best known works are however his ''Novelle ''(short stories). They were originally 300 in number, but today only 258 remain, the rest having been lost. They were not fitted into any framework like that of [[Boccaccio]]'s ''[[Decameron]]''. The best of them are of a humorous character; and their style is more simple and colloquial than Boccaccio's. The story given as a specimen probably exists (under one form or another) in the folk tales of every European nation. ▼
 
▲In 1386 he was chosen ambassador to Genoa, but preferred to go as ''[[podestà]]'' to [[Bibbiena]] in Casentino. In 1392 he was podestà of [[San Miniato]], and in 1396 he held a similar office at [[Faenza]]. In 1398 he received from his fellow-citizens the post of captain of their then province of [[Romagna]], having his residence at [[Portico e San Benedetto|Portico]]. The date of his death is unknown; most probably it occurred about 1400, though some writers place it as late as 1410.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}
 
▲He wrote sonnets, canzoni, madrigals, and other poems; his best known works are however his ''Novelle ''(short stories). They were originally 300 in number, but today only 258 remain, the rest having been lost. They were not fitted into any framework like that of [[Boccaccio]]'s ''[[Decameron]]''. The best of them are of a humorous character; and their style is more simple and colloquial than Boccaccio's. The story given as a specimen probably exists (under one form or another) in the folk tales of every European nation.
 
Sacchetti died at [[San Miniato]] around 1400.
 
He has been defined as an author of Proto-Morlachism, a purported early stage of [[Morlachism]].<ref>{{cite thesis|url=https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/0d19d195-6047-4425-8a14-ebf60e87e70d|title=Imagining the Morlacchi in Fortis and Goldoni|first=Branislava|last=Milić Brett|publisher=[[University of Alberta]]|type=PhD|pages=1–213|year=2014|doi=10.7939/R3MM45}}</ref>
 
== See also ==
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== References ==
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'''Attribution:'''
*{{EB1911|wstitle = Sacchetti, Franco|volume=23|page=970}}
 
== Sources ==
* {{DBI |title= SACCHETTI, Franco |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/franco-sacchetti_(Dizionario-Biografico)|last= Zaccarello|first= Michelangelo|volume= 89}}
* {{cite book|title=The Humour of Italy|first=A. |last=Werner|location=London|publisher=W. Scott Ltd. }}
*{{1911}}
* {{cite journal|title=Sacchetti, Franco|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198183327.001.0001/acref-9780198183327-e-2821|first=M.|last=Picone|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|journal=The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature|year=2002|access-date=7 June 2023}}
 
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