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Filippo Strozzi the Younger (January 4, 1489 – December 18, 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 primary name: Strozzi, Filippo ... David Teniers the Younger | Production date 1656-1660 . print; book-illustration. Title Philippes Strossy | Museum number 1879,1213.253 ...
Filippo Strozzi’s exile was lifted in 1466 and on his return home he devoted his energies to building a residence with the ambition of creating the “largest and finest palazzo” in Florence. It took him from 1473 to 1489 to acquire the land “in the most convenient and lovely spot in the city”.
Summary. An army of ragged exiles defeated at Montemurlo in 1537 by Duke Cosimo de'Medici of Florence and a suicide note echoing the words of Cato found beside his body in the duke's prison a year later are the images most closely associated with the memory of Filippo Strozzi the Younger.
January 4th, 1489. Birthplace. Florence, Italy. Death Date. December 18, 1538. Occupation. Banker. 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. Bibliography. Gregory, Heather. "The Return of the Native: Filippo Strozzi and Medicean Politics."
His son, who is known as Filippo II Strozzi the Younger (1489 – 1538), allied himself with the Medici through his marriage to Clarice de' Medici, the daughter of Piero de' Medici. He provided loans to the Medici but his own plans for political power brought him into conflict with the Medici and ultimately his banishment from the city.
