Jaume Safont
Jaume Safont (1420–1487), called Jacme ça Font in contemporary records, was a Catalan people, Catalan poet and notary. From March 1436 he worked as a scrivener for the municipal council of Barcelona, his birthplace, and from July 1440 he worked in the scriptorium of the Generalitat de Catalunya. In that capacity he wrote the ''Dietari de la Generalitat'' for the years between 1454 and 1472. The Dietari is a daily record of events political, military, and religious for the use of the Generalitat. Jaume compiled his information for the Diputació del General that covers the years between 1411 and 1478/84; his years are the most detailed and anecdotal. The ''Dietari'' was edited under the title ''Dietari, o, Llibre de jornades de Jaume Safont'' by Josep Maria Sans i Travé (Barcelona: Fundació Noguera, 1992). In 1462 Jaume was named Procurator fiscal, procurator in charge of collecting the imposts known as the ''generalitats''. In politics he was a member of the faction known ...
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