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Filippo Strozzi the Younger (4 January 1489 – 18 December 1538) was a Florentine banker, and the most famous member of the Strozzi family in the Renaissance. He is best remembered as a tragic hero and defender of the lost Florentine republic against the Medici dukes – yet this is almost entirely a nineteenth-century fiction of ...
Filippo Strozzi the Younger was a Florentine banker, and the most famous member of the Strozzi family in the Renaissance. He is best remembered as a tragic hero and defender of the lost Florentine republic against the Medici dukes – yet this is almost entirely a nineteenth-century fiction of nationalist historians and dramatists.
Filippo Strozzi. Born in Florence; Lord of Epernay and Bressuirre; served in the French army and was appointed Colonel général de l'Infanterie (1569); Knight of the Order of the Saint-Esprit (1578); killed at the battle of Terceira.
Filippo Strozzi the Elder (1428 – 1491) was an outspoken opponent of the Medici, who was banished from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici and established himself in Naples. After returning to Florence in 1466, he became an adviser to Lorenzo de' Medici and began construction of the Strozzi palace, which remains one of the most imposing mansions of ...
Biographical Text. Trollope, T.A. Filippo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty. Mit Strozzi's Portrait. Chapman & Hall, 1860.
Filippo Strozzi the Elder (4 July 1428 – 14 May 1491) was an Italian banker and statesman, a member of the affluent Strozzi family of Florence. He was born in Florence to Matteo Strozzi (son of Simone Strozzi and Andreina Rondinelli) and Alessandra Macinghi (daughter of Filippo Macinghi). [1]
When not confused from the outset with his father who was also named Filippo, builder of the magnificent family palace in Florence, Filippo the Younger is most often remembered as a tragic hero, defender of the lost Florentine Republic against her new masters the Medici dukes.
