The ''Chronica parva Ferrariensis'' was a short chronicle of the history of

Ferrara Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...

up to 1264 written by Riccobaldo of Ferrara in the years 1313–17. The chronicler tends to laud the "good old days", and deprecate contemporary Ferrara as fallen away from its former glory, as when he writes of the years before 1240: "At that time the Ferrarese republic was propsering, and its citizens were enjoying wealth and peace."Nicolai Rubinstein, ''Studies in Italian history in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance'', vol. 1, ser. ed. Giovanni Ciappelli (Editrice di Storia e Letteratura, 2004), 44 and 113: ''Huius pacis tempore floruit respublica Ferrariensis et cives bonorum copia fruebantur et pace. Nemo nisi facinorosus et scelestus exulabat a patria''. It was included by Ludovico Muratori in his ''Rerum italicarum Scriptores'', and was edited by Gabriele Zanella in 1983.

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*A. F. Massèra. "L'autenticità della Chronica parva ferrariensis", ''Archivio Muratoriano'', 10 (n.d.), 551 ff. *A. Teresa Hankey. ''Riccobaldo of Ferrara: His Life, Works and Influence'' (Rome: Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo, 1996). Italian chronicles 13th-century books in Latin