Machiavelli (family)

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The Machiavelli refer to a family from the oligarchy of late medieval and early modern Florence . The name is supposedly written from mali chiavelli and literally meant something like "bad nail ". The coat of arms depicted a blue cross on a white background with one of four nails in each of the fields. According to Pasquale Villari's reference to older Ricordanze , the family-handed down ancestor of the family was a Dono Machiavelli, who, as a secondogenitus, became a resident of Florence around 1120. The primogenitus, however, continued the line of the Castellani of Montespertoli and therefore had a different coat of arms. The Castellani became extinct at the end of the 14th century. In 1393 the inheritance of the castle of Montespertoli came to Lorenzo Machiavelli .

The town-resident Machiavelli were Guelphs: Giovanni Villani lists the family for the year 1260 and with the departure of the Guelfan Popolan families after the battle of Montaperti . The inhabited part of the city was already Oltrarno, the Lesser Town of Florence. The Pitti family tradition mentions close relationships as early as 1300. In any case, during this time the Pitti sold to the Machiavelli townhouses in the popolo of Santa Felicita, which were inhabited by them in a cluster, that is to say in a branched family group. The land was in the Pesa Valley and is documented for the village of Sant'Andrea in Percussina at the latest at the end of the 14th century, based on an incident from 1396.

Sant'Andrea in Percussina is a place of importance, as it still has the memorable Casa Machiavelli , the so-called Albergaccio , to this day. The Florentine town house of the prominent Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), however, was destroyed by bombing during the Second World War . It was found in what is now Via Guicciardini.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Villari, Pasquale: Niccolò Machiavelli ei suoi tempi, Vol. 1, Milan 1895 2 , p. 307.
  2. ^ Zaccaria, Raffaella: Lorenzo Machiavelli, in: DBI 67 (2006), p. 78.
  3. ^ Porta, Giuseppe (Ed.): Giovanni Villani. Nuova Cronica, Vol. 1, Parma 1990, pp. 380 and VIII / 79, respectively.
  4. ↑ See the information from Buonaccorso Pitti in his 'Ricordi' from around 1400, in: Branca, Vittore (ed.): Mercanti scrittori, Milan 1986, p. 352; for the residents see everyday life based on Cesare Olschki (Ed.): Bernardo Machiavelli. Libro di Ricordi, Florence 1954, passim.
  5. ↑ See the information provided by Giovanni di Pagolo Morelli in his 'Ricordi' from around 1400, in: Branca, Vittore (ed.): Mercanti scrittori, Milan 1986, p. 278.