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CORSINI

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORSINI , the name of a Florentine princely See also:

family, of which the founder is said to be See also:Neri Corsini, who flourished about the See also:year 1170. Like other Florentine nobles the Corsini had at first no titles, but in more See also:recent times they received many from See also:foreign potentates and from the later See also:grand See also:dukes of See also:Tuscany. The See also:emperor See also:Charles IV. created the See also:head of the See also:house a See also:count See also:palatine in 1371; the marquisate of Sismano was conferred onthem in 162o, those of Casigliano and Civitella in 1629, of Lajatico and Orciatico in 1644, of Giovagallo and Tresana in 1652; in 1730 Lorenzo Corsini was elected See also:pope as See also:Clement XII., and conferred the See also:rank of See also:Roman princes and the duchy of Casigliano on his family, and in 1732 they were created grandees of See also:Spain. They own two palaces in See also:Florence, one of which on the See also:Lung' See also:Arno Corsini contains the finest private picture See also:gallery in the See also:city, and many villas and estates in various parts of See also:Italy. See L. Passerini, Genealogia e sloria della famiglia Corsini (Florence, 1858) ; A. von See also:Reumont, Geschichte der Stadt Rom (See also:Berlin, 1868) ; Almanach de See also:Gotha. (L.

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