Pitti (noble family)

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The family Pitti was in Florence the Renaissance one of the most important and influential noble families. She was linked to the Rucellai family through numerous marriage alliances .

history

Buonacorso di Neri Pitti († 1432) wrote a chronicle of his family in which he located their origins in the Val di Pesa south of Florence and described how the Guelfan Pitti from the Ghibelline fort Semifonte (today in the area of ​​the municipality of Barberino Val d ' Elsa ) were expelled to Florence, where they  gained wealth and prestige through land ownership and wool trading in the Oltrarno district south of the Ponte Vecchio . As early as the end of the 12th century, members of the family appeared in the priory of the city of Florence, thirteen times a Pitti was head of the city as Gonfaloniere di Giustizia . Buonacorso, a self-confident patrician of the early Renaissance, bought adjacent land around the family property, which enabled the Palazzo Pitti to be built as a representative family residence under his son Luca Pitti (1395–1473). As a member of the Medici, Luca Pitti gained great importance in the political life of Florence, but lost his influence after the death of Cosimo de 'Medici and participation in a kind of interregnum against Cosimo's heir Piero . With this the zenith of the importance of the family was passed: With the marriage of Caterina Pitti with Pandolfo di Giovanni Rucellai the main line of the Pitti with this sex was connected; the Palazzo Pitti was sold to the Medici in the 16th century, who expanded it into a monumental royal residence.

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