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STROZZI , the name of an See also:

ancient and See also:noble Florentine See also:family, which was already famous in the 14th See also:century. See also:Palla Strozzi (1372-1462) played an important See also:part in the public See also:life of See also:Florence, and founded the first public library in Florence in the monastery of See also:Santa Trinita. Filippo Strozzi it Vecchio (1426-1491), son of Matteo and of Alessandra Macinghi, a famous See also:literary woman, began to build the beautiful Strozzi See also:palace in Florence. More celebrated was another Filippo Strozzi (1488-1538), who, although married to a See also:Medici, opposed the See also:hegemony of that See also:house and was one of the leaders of the rising of 1527. On the final overthrow of the See also:republic in 1530 Alessandro de' Medici attempted to win over Filippo Strozzi, but Strozzi had no faith in the See also:tyrant and retired to See also:Venice. After the See also:murder of Alessandro he undertook the leadership of a See also:band of republican exiles with the See also:object of re-entering the See also:city (1537); but having been defeated and captured and put to the See also:torture, he committed See also:suicide. His son Leone (1515-1554) was a distinguished See also:admiral in the service of See also:France and fought against the Medici; he died of a See also:wound received while attacking Sarlino. Another Filippo (1541-1582) served in the See also:French See also:army, and was captured and killed by the Spaniards. Senator Carlo Strozzi (1587-1671) formed an important library and collected a valuable See also:miscellany known as the Carle Strozziane, of which the most important part is now in the See also:state archives of Florence; he was the author of a Storietta della See also:cilia di Firenze dal 1279 at 1292 (unpublished) and a Storia See also:delta casa See also:Barberini (See also:Rome, 1640). The Strozzi acquired by See also:marriage the titles of princes of Forano, See also:dukes of Bagnolo, &c. The Strozzi palace, which belonged to the family until 1907, was bequeathed by will to the See also:Italian nation. See A.

Bardi, Filippo Strozzi (Florence, 1894) ; B. Niccolini, Filippo Strozzi (Florence) ; C. Guasti, Le See also:

Carte Strozziane (Florence, 1884-1891).

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