Salvino D'Armato degli Armati of Florence is sometimes credited with the invention of eyeglasses in the 13th century, however it has been shown that this claim was a hoax, and that there was no member of the Armati family with that name at the time.
Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni was an Italian critic and poet. Crescimbeni was a founding member and leader of the erudite literary society of Accademia degli Arcadi in Rome.
Henry of Settimello was a late 12th-century Italian poet. Arrigo is considered Italy's leading Latin poet of what is called the twelfth-century Renaissance. He was the author of De diversitate fortunæ et philosophiæ consolatione, a Latin poem in elegiac couplets. His Latin nickname is linked with a story that he could not afford paper and was forced to write his poems on old parchment.
Alfonso Parigi the Younger (1606–1656) was an Italian architect and scenographer, the son of Giulio Parigi, and grandson of Alfonso Parigi the Elder.
Giuseppe Cades was an Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver.
Giuseppe Maria Orlandini was an Italian baroque composer particularly known for his more than 40 operas and intermezzos. Highly regarded by music historians of his day like Francesco Saverio Quadrio, Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and Charles Burney, Orlandini, along with Vivaldi, is considered one of the major creators of the new style of opera that dominated the second decade of the 18th century.
Andrea Salvadori was an Italian poet and librettist. He was born in Florence and educated at the Collegio Romano in Rome. From 1616 until his death in Florence at the age of 43, he was the principal court poet to the Medici family. In addition to numerous theatrical entertainments and poems, he wrote the libretti for five operas, four of which have survived, although only La Flora composed by Marco da Gagliano and Jacopo Peri has an extant score. He was married twice, first to Emilia Rigogli by whom he had three sons and then to the painter Alessandra Furini. A collection of Salvadori's principal works curated by his son Francesco was published in 1668.
Giovan Vettorio Soderini was an Italian agronomist.
The Accademia Fiorentina was a philosophical and literary academy established in Florence in the Republic of Florence during the Italian Renaissance. It was active from 1540 to 1783.
Anton Maria Salvini was an Italian naturalist and classicist who lived in Tuscany. An accomplished linguist, he is noted for his translations of texts in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
The Metropolitan City of Florence is an administrative division called metropolitan city in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Florence. It replaced the province of Florence. It was first created by the reform of local authorities and then established by the Law 56/2014. It has been operative since 1 January 2015.
The two fontane dei mostri marini are located in the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata in Florence, Italy.
Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci was an Italian writer, poet, patriot, and educator.
Domenico Maria Corsi was a Catholic cardinal who served as Bishop of Rimini from 1687 to his death, and as Legate of Romagna from 1687 to 1693.
Florentia was a Roman city in the Arno valley from which Florence originated. According to tradition, it was built by the legions of Gaius Julius Caesar in 59 BC; however, the prevailing hypothesis dates the foundation of the city to the Augustan period.
Ambrogio Del Giudice, also known as Ambrosius de Altamura or just Altamura, was an Italian Dominican and historian.
The Accademia degli Apatisti was a scholarly society founded in Florence in 1632 and associated with the Studio Fiorentino. Together with the Accademia degli Umidi and the Accademia della Crusca it was one of Florence’s dominant literary academies of the XVII century.
Pietro Paolo MontagnaniakaPietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili is a late 18th C. - early 19th C. Italian engraver (burin) and publisher of books and prints who lived presumably in Florence, Italy, around 1800 - 1820.
Francesco Rondinelli was a Florentine scholar and academic of the Seicento.
The Palazzo Naldini, or Naldini Del Riccio', or also Niccolini al Duomo, is a Florence palace located on the corner of Piazza del Duomo 28 rosso and Via dei Servi 2–4.
