Gino Capponi, in his _Storia della Repubblica di Firenze_ (vol.i.Appendix, final note), observes that while the Villani are popular in tone the Malespini Chronicle is feudal.

Adolfo Bartoli (_Storia della Lett.

It._ vol.iii.

p.
155) treats the question as still open.

The custom of preserving brief _fasti_ in the archives of great houses rendered such compilations as the Malespini Chronicle is now supposed to have been both easy and attractive.