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Gherardini of Montagliari (Florence)
Stemma gherardini di firenze e montagliari.jpg
The coat of arms of the Gherardini of Montagliari in Tuscany, Patrician of Venice, Marquises of San Polo d'Enza, Marquises of Castelnuovo de' Gherardini, Marquises of Bazzano, Scurano and Pianzo, Patricians of Reggio in the Emilia region.
Current region Lazio, Tuscany
Place of origin Tuscany
Founded856;1168 years ago (856)
Connected families House of Amidei
House of Medici
House of Strozzi
House of Bardi
House of Albizzi
House of Altoviti
Motto"Festina Lente"
Cadet branchesGherardini of Tuscany
Gherardini of Veneto
Gherardini of Paris
Gherardini of Ireland
Gard
Fitzgerald
The famous Mona Lisa is the portrait of Lisa Gherardini known as "La Gioconda" because she was married to Francesco Bartolomeo del Giocondo La Gioconda.jpg
The famous Mona Lisa is the portrait of Lisa Gherardini known as "La Gioconda" because she was married to Francesco Bartolomeo del Giocondo
Florence, birthplace of the House of Gherardini, founding family of the Republic before its exile to Venice The Cathedral, panoramic view from Vecchio Palace, Florence, Italy LOC 4712014954.jpg
Florence, birthplace of the House of Gherardini, founding family of the Republic before its exile to Venice

The Gherardini family of Montagliari (or Florence) was one of the most prominent historical Italian noble families from Tuscany, Italy. Through the Amideis, the family was of Roman descent. [1] Between the 9th and 14th centuries, they played an important role in Tuscany. Its influence was also felt in the Veneto and Emilia regions between the 16th and 18th centuries, and during the Italian Risorgimento as well as in today's Italian politics and economy. [2] The family's restless and fighting nature has aroused the curiosity of many historians of the Middle Ages. Originating from feudal tradition, it was one of the founding families of the Republic of Florence. [3]

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The Great Council of Venice, the Gherardinis of Florence became members of the Venetian patriciate in 1652 Canaletto - The Doge and Grand Council in Sala del Maggior Consiglio - KMS3898 - Statens Museum for Kunst.jpg
The Great Council of Venice, the Gherardinis of Florence became members of the Venetian patriciate in 1652

The family took part in Florence's political life between 1100 and 1300. In 1300, they were exiled from the city when Florence began its transformation into a Signoria, later ruled by the Medicis. In his Divine Comedy , Dante Alighieri, who was exiled with the Gherardinis, placed the family in Paradise's V Sphere. Following its exile from Tuscany, the family joined the Great Council of Venice (Venice's Chamber of Peers), becoming Patricians of that city, and members of the Venetian nobility. [4] Until 1800, they kept some fiefs between Tuscany and Emilia Romagna.

The oldest knightly tomb in Tuscany (in the Church of Sant'Appiano, near Barberino Val d'Elsa) belongs to this family. [5] Historically influential in Florence, the Gheradinis were also featured in Florentine Histories , a book written by Niccolò Machiavelli at the request of the Medicis. [6] In modern times, their name is affiliated with the Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci, as the painting depicts the portrait of Lisa Gherardini. Arms of this family is a quarterly Barry of six vair and gules and imperial eagles. Today's best known descendant lives in New York City and is an artist, Chiara Ajkun.

The Gheradinis also married into other Renaissance families across the centuries such as the Medicis, Strozzis, Bardis, Albizzis, Altovitis, Frescobaldis, Albertis, Balestrieris, and Ricasolis. [7] [8]

Origins

The tomb of knight Gherarduccio Gherardini, oldest knightly tomb in Tuscany, Church of Sant'Appiano, Barberino Val d'Elsa, Florence Sepolcrogheraduccio.jpg
The tomb of knight Gherarduccio Gherardini, oldest knightly tomb in Tuscany, Church of Sant'Appiano, Barberino Val d'Elsa, Florence

According to the most recent university research, in 856 the family founded the Church of San Piero a Ema (with Gaifredo) and "nepotes Ceci" as a sobriquet. [9] The family is described in documents dating back to that period and kept in the Church of San Miniato in Florence. They were feudatories in the Chianti and the Val d'Elsa areas and settled in Florence in 1100 following the death of Matilda of Tuscany. They founded the Republic of Florence and had a number of Consuls in the Republic ("Consul Civitatis": heads of government). [3]

Two centuries later, they took part in the fights between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines and subsequently between the White and Black Guelphs; they were with the "White" faction and were opposed to the transformations which led to the birth of the Signoria. Some of the leading figures of the family during that period include: Gherarduccio Gherardini (whose tombstone in the Church of Sant'Appiano is the oldest knightly tomb in Tuscany), [5] Noldo Gherardini, Cece Gherardini, Vanne and Bernardino Gherardini, Lotteringo Gherardini, Cione Gherardini known as "il Pelliccia" and Andrea Gherardini "lo Scacciaguelfi" (the Shoo Away the Guelphs). [10] This era of war between the factions supporting the Pope and the ones supporting the Holy Roman Emperor was later immortalized in Florentine Histories, a book written by Niccolò Machiavelli and commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, later known as Pope Clement VII, of the House of Medici, in which the Gherardinis are featured on many occasions. [6]

More recent university studies have confirmed both the central role played by this family in Florence's medieval history and its members' reputation as inflexible as shown by the statistics on penalties and sentences which afflicted some families in that period. According to Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, a French historian, the Gherardinis from Montagliari were "instigators of disorders", "with little desire to participate in public life". They were also a "bellicose and rude" family. This deeply independent character must have been at the basis of the family's decision not to abide by the new rules of the rising Commune of Florence such as the Ordinances of Justice of 1296 which aimed at forcing aristocracy to give up their names of origin and privileges. Unless they did so, there were very high taxes and penalties for them. Their opposition explains the passion with which Florence fought them, destroying, where possible, their assets. [11]

Civil War and Exile

Portrait of Marquis Francesco Gherardini, by Tintoretto, 1568 Francesco gherardini tintoretto.jpg
Portrait of Marquis Francesco Gherardini, by Tintoretto, 1568

Following many years of civil war, the Gherardinis were exiled in 1302 because they were accused of having forged an alliance with the neighbouring city of Siena. According to historians (and contemporaries of the time), the accusation was based on false documents and invented by Cante Gabrielli, the Podestà, to stamp out this family and its allies once and for all. [12] Following this accusation, Florence attacked the Gherardinis. The land they owned or controlled went from the first sighting centres near the southern walls of Florence, and from Marignolle up to Impruneta. It then went on up to the main fortresses of Montagliari and Montaguto near the current Greve in Chianti. To the west, their land went all the way up to the fortress of Linari near Barberino Val d'Elsa.

In the summer of 1302, following a siege, both Montagliari and Montaguto were burned to the ground. The Republic of Florence then decreed that it was no longer possible to build on this area. This edict was breached by the Gherardinis in 1632 when they built a chapel. [13] The western part of the Gherardini's land and properties withstood the attack by the Florentines because Andrea Gherardini was ruling the nearby city of Pistoia and the Gherardinis enjoyed greater strength in Valdelsa (a valley south of Florence). A few years later, Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor tried to remove this family from Valdelsa but did not succeed because the Castle of Linari, led by Vanne Gherardini, withstood the summer siege of 1313. Following the death of Gherarduccio Gherardini in 1331 (buried in the Church of Sant'Appiano, near Linari), the family lost its last great commander and the last remaining properties were gradually lost too. [14]

Marquis Gian Francesco Gherardini, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, 1905 Il Marchese-Gian-Francesco-Gherardini-Senatore-del-regno-1920.gif
Marquis Gian Francesco Gherardini, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, 1905

After the fall of Montagliari, and the subsequent loss of their land and properties in Val d'Elsa, the last Gherardinis (except a small group) went into exile to Verona that, at that time, was under the Empire. Dante Alighieri went into exile with them too. At the same time, the Florentines finished to destroy the Gherardinis' buildings in the city as well as other evidence of their life there. This was their third exodus. The previous expulsion of the Ghibellinis, half a century earlier, meant that some Gherardinis moved near Verona and Rovigo (they came together again later on). The first exodus took place around 1120 with the death of Matilda of Tuscany. One of the heads of the family, Gherardino, and his children (Tommaso, Gherardo and Maurizio) decided to leave Tuscany. Initially they were members of the retinue of Louis VII of France, called the Young, and then they were with Henry II of England and went to conquer Ireland, where they started the FitzGerald dynasty. [15] [16] This topic is still being studied by some historians. [17]

Count Gian Raffaello Gherardini in 1966 during the parade of the Florentines' Calcio Storico (Historical Football). From the archives of the Calcio Storico. Conte-Gian-Raffaello-Gherardini-1966.jpg
Count Gian Raffaello Gherardini in 1966 during the parade of the Florentines' Calcio Storico (Historical Football). From the archives of the Calcio Storico.

The Current Branch

In 1633 thanks to Gaspare and Angelo, the main branch, that had settled in Verona between 1300 and 1400, added some properties in the Emilia region to the fiefs they had received when they had arrived (Montorio, Bardolino, Sorgate and Montecchiana). From the House of Este and the House of Gonzaga, they bought the Marquisate of Scurano, Bazzano and Pianzo, that of San Polo d'Enza, and in 1652 the Marquisate of Castelnovo di Sotto. On 19 November 1652, during the War of Candia, Bernardino, younger brother of Gaspare and Angelo, welcomed the Gherardinis among the Venetian noble families of the Great Council of the Republic of Venice, about the same time as did the Medicis.

The two branches came together again in 1811. [18] With the arrival of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Republic of Venice and Venice were occupied by the French and given to Austria, which would change the future of the Gherardinis. While their fiefs were occupied and absorbed by the Napoleonic kingdoms in 1805, the Gherardinis, after ten centuries of being Lords in Europe, lost their independence, which led them to reconsider their relations with the House of Habsburg and Austria. This is why they started to support the new cause of Risorgimento – the unity of Italy – and subsequently, following the unity, they took part in Italian political life and often served in the armed forces. A notable member was General Gian Claudio Gherardini.

Other branches

After the exile in 1300, a small branch stayed on in Tuscany but died out in the 18th century with four brothers: Hippolytus (died as a baby); Anthony (died in the war of Hungary); Alemanno (Knight of Malta) and Fabio, who was the last to die in Denmark in 1743. None of them left any heir. This was the branch Lisa Gherardini, the Gioconda, belonged to. In 1632, this branch and the current branch built the Chapel of Santa Maria della Neve in Montagliari (subsequently drawn by Leonardo da Vinci).

In January 1857, with a Decree of the Duke of Modena, another branch took on "Gherardini-Parigi" as its surname in order to continue the line of Gian Marco Gherardini's mother, Alda Parigi of the Counts of San Severino. However, this branch too soon died out with the death of his grandson, Giulio, in the mid-20th century. [19] From 1660 another branch lived in Lendinara and in Ferrara (Noble family of Lendinara, Counts of Lusia, Noble family of Ferrara). This branch originated with Francesco di Corradino but died out in 1830 in Ferrara because Francesco had only one daughter, Isotta, born in 1817. [20]

An older branch developed in France with Girardin as its surname. According to a well-documented historical event referring to Peter and Lotto, sons of Noldo of the Gherardinis, in August 1343, they followed Walter VI of Brienne, Duke of Athens, to France. [21] According to some sources, they were granted the Signoria of Marail in the Champagne region. [22] Peter died on 9 September 1393 and is buried in the Church of Marail (Castle of Hervì). The Marquis René de Girardin (1735–1808), owner of the Château d'Ermenonville and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, claimed to belong to this branch. Other members of the Girardin family included Louis Stanislas de Girardin, Émile de Girardin, and Delphine de Girardin, and the remaining Girardins in Paris.

The Gherardinis of Ireland branch started by Thomas, Gerard and Maurice, sons of Gherardino, still exist today and is headed by the Duke of Leinster. This branch left with Henry II of England to go and conquer Ireland where they initiated the House of FitzGerald, one of the oldest dynasty of Ireland. [15] [16] The FitzGerald Dukes and the Gherardinis of Montagliari are known to be in touch since at least the 15th century and were featured recently in "Sette" magazine of Corriere della Sera. [23] In communication letters dating back to 1507 between the Gherardinis of Tuscany and Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, who was also the Viceroy of Ireland and King Henry Tudor's cousin, the Earl's letters were signed as "Gerald, Chief in Ireland of the family of the Gherardini". [24]

Alliances

Venice, showing Ca' Rezzonico on the left, where paintings of the Gherardinis are exposed Ca' Rezzonico - Il Canal Grande verso Ca' Pesaro (Inv.219) - Ippolito Caffi.jpg
Venice, showing Ca' Rezzonico on the left, where paintings of the Gherardinis are exposed
Leonardo da Vinci painting the portrait of La Gioconda, by artist Cesare Maccari Leonardo retrata a la Gioconda, por Cesare Maccari.jpg
Leonardo da Vinci painting the portrait of La Gioconda, by artist Cesare Maccari

Lisa Gherardini married to Francesco del Giocondo, whose family were silk merchants. He was previously married to a member of the Rucellai family, owners of Palazzo Rucellai. [25] One of Francesco's relative was Giannetto Giocondo, who had business dealings with Amerigo Vespucci, the explorer who gave his name to America. [25] His relative was an assistant of Machiavelli and both the Gherardinis and Machiavellis came from the parish of Santa Trinita. [25] Lisa Gherardini's step-mother, Caterina di Mariotto Rucellai, was also of the Rucellai family. [26] Niccolo Machiavelli dedicated his book "The Art of War" and "Discourses on Titus Livy" to the family's patriarch, Cosimo Rucellai, son of Bernardo Rucellai and Lucrezia de' Medici. [25]

The Gherardinis married four times with members of the Medici family of Florence. The marriages were as follow; Venna de Medici married to Francesco Gherardini, Leonarda de Medici married to Guelfo Gherardini, Giuliano de Medici married to Tita Gherardini, and Nicolo Rosso de Medici married to Clemenza Gherardini. [27]

Leonarda was a member of the family of Salvestro de' Medici, a second cousin of Averardo de' Medici, father of Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, the founder of the Medici Bank. [27]

Giuliano was Castellan of the Fortress of Sansepolcro, and son of a Magistrate. His great-grandfathers were Niccolo de Medici, also a descendant of the Averardo branch, and Bice Strozzi, a member of the House of Strozzi. His great-aunt was Aurelia de Medici, who married Luca di Maso degli Albizzi, brother of Rinaldo degli Albizzi, the primary opponent of Cosimo. They were also descendants of Chiarissimo I de' Medici, son of the founder of the Medici family, and father of Filippo, who married to Alessia Grimaldi of Genova, of the Grimaldi family of Monaco. [27]

Marriages of the Gherardinis over the centuries included the Houses of Medici, Strozzi, Bardi, Albizzi, Altoviti, Frescobaldi, Balestrieri, Alberti, Ricasoli, among others. [7] [8] [27] The Gherardinis were also related to the Amidei, according to historian Ricordano Malespini, and thus to its cousin branch, the House of Piccolomini, who were Patricians of Siena and allies of Vlad Dracula and the Venetians during the reign of Pope Pius II. [28]

Many of these families played a major role in the Renaissance, and were patrons of famous figures such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Vasari, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Machiavelli, and many others. Also, their relatives, the House of Bardi, who were a noble family of bankers during the Age of Discovery, were early financiers of John Cabot and Christopher Columbus and their expeditions to the Americas.

Patronage

Alessandro Gherardini, pupil of Alessandro Rosi, worked on the Complesso di San Firenze Alessandro Gherardini - Saint Jerome penitent.jpg
Alessandro Gherardini, pupil of Alessandro Rosi, worked on the Complesso di San Firenze

One of the peculiarities of this family, defined by historians as "rude" and hardly observant of the rules of public life, [11] is a constant vein of patronage. Some serious patronage is well documented like the commission given to Fra Angelico to create an altarpiece for the family chapel near the Church of Santo Stefano al Ponte in Florence. Lotteringo Gherardini is buried in this church. The altarpiece was commissioned in 1418 but went lost. [29] According to art historians, the Gherardinis supported Alessandro Turchi, called l'Orbetto, who they commissioned many works of art to. [30] Nothing is known about the relationship between the family and Tintoretto, except that the Gherardinis were members of the Great Council of the Republic of Venice and, therefore, frequented Venice.

However, in 1568 the Venetian painter drew the portrait of Francesco Gherardini. The portrait is on display at the Ca' Rezzonico Museum of Venice. Although there were contacts with Leonardo da Vinci, their full nature is not known. Leonardo drew both the portrait of Lisa Gherardini (Mona Lisa) and the Gherardinis' Chapel in Montagliari. An artist of the family, Alessandro Gherardini, pupil of Alessandro Rosi, obtained a commission by Prince Ferdinando de Medici for a fresco celebrating his marriage to Princess Violante Beatrice of Bavaria. The fresco can be seen today at the Pitti Palace in Florence. [31]

Tommaso Gherardini, worked on the Medici Villa del Poggio Imperiale Tommaso gherardini, piazza d'armi a livorno, xviii secolo 02.jpg
Tommaso Gherardini, worked on the Medici Villa del Poggio Imperiale

Other known artists of the Gherardini family were Tommaso Gherardini, Stefano Gherardini, Melchiorre Gherardini, and Niccolò Gherardini, a friend of Galileo Galilei and his personal biographer. [32] Niccolo wrote the first biography of Galileo named Vita del signor Galileo Galilei (Life of Signor Galileo Galilei), and was a relative of Pope Urban VIII of the House of Barberini. [33]

A painting commissioned by the family in 2010 can be seen in the Church of Sant'Appiano, still used by the family and where Gherarduccio Gherardini is buried. At the bottom of its frame, visitors can read the following:

Florentiae clarissimae Gherardinis familiae nos J.Raphaelus Dominus Cynthiaque MariaTeresia Dominae comites hanc operam in Gherarducci memoriam Sancti Appiani Templo donant. A.D. MMX. [34]

Recent history and the Gherardinis today

Count Gian Claudio Gherardini at a public event in Florence in 1964. Lo Specchio (weekly magazine), 1964. Conte-Gian-Claudio-Gherardini-1964.jpg
Count Gian Claudio Gherardini at a public event in Florence in 1964. Lo Specchio (weekly magazine), 1964.

According to the last Register of Italian Nobility approved by the Ministry of the Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1939) and in accordance with its official genealogy, the Gherardinis of Montagliari are divided into two branches: one branch is headed by Marquis Francesco Alberto (primogeniture) whereas the second is headed by Count Gian Claudio (cadet branch). The current residences of the Marquises and Counts Gherardini are in Rome, Venice, Florence, and New York. Although the family is not interested in being in the news, some articles were written in 2007 and 2010 on Countess Cinzia Maria Gherardini, the current oldest member of the family. [35]

A 2014 cover story published by Sette, the Italian weekly magazine of Corriere della Sera, was dedicated to the Gherardini family and their relationship with the FitzGerald family as well with the Kennedy family. The magazine stated that the three families have maintained relationship among them even in recent time or in the past (for example with American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy). [36] [37]

Some of the most recent and best known members of the Gherardini family are: Marquis Maurizio, Great Chamberlain of the Emperor of Austria and Austria's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Kingdom of Sardinia; Princess Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso (daughter of Marchioness Vittoria Gherardini), first female newspaper director whom Carlo Cattaneo defined the "first lady of Italy" for her commitment towards national unity; Marquis Gian Marco, Chairman of the Savings Bank of Reggio Emilia and Podestà of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia from 1851 to 1854.

His son Gian Francesco Gherardini, was mayor of Reggio Emilia from 1873 to 1881, Member of Parliament and subsequently Senator until his death in 1926; his grandson, Count Gian Claudio Gherardini, was Commander of the 8th Bersaglieri (Marksmen) Regiment in El Alamein and subsequently Commanding General of Folgore Parachute Brigade who died in 1971) and was the first one to bring back to Florence the Gherardini of Montagliari after seven centuries; his great-grandson, the economist Jacopo Schettini Gherardini, candidate for the National Secretariat of the Democratic Party (Italy) during the primary elections of 2007.

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The house of Machiavelli, also referred to as L'Albergaccio, was the place where Niccolò Machiavelli lived during his exile from Florence. This is located in Sant'Andrea in Percussina in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, in the province of Florence, Tuscany, Italy

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Palazzo Martelli</span>

The Palazzo or Casa Martelli was a residential palace, and since 2009, a civic museum displaying in situ the remains of the original family's valuable art collection, as well as its frescoed rooms. The palace is located on Via Ferdinando Zannetti 8 near the corner with Via Cerretani in central Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Bianca Maria di Piero de' Medici was a member of the de' Medici family, de facto rulers of Florence in the late 15th century. She was the daughter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and sister of Lorenzo de' Medici, who succeeded his father in that position. She married Guglielmo de' Pazzi, a member of the Pazzi family. She was a musician, and played the organ for Pope Pius II and the future Pope Alexander VI in 1460; she was a landowner.

References

  1. Ponsonby and Murphy (1879). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. Fourth series. Vol. IV. The Association of Ireland. pp. 263–264. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  2. Titles: Lords of Montagliari in Tuscany, Patrician of Venice, Marquises of San Polo d'Enza, Marquises of Castelnuovo de' Gherardini, Marquises of Bazzano, Scurano and Pianzo, Patricians of Reggio in the Emilia region. From the Register of Italian Nobility during the Kingdom of Italy edited by the Ministry of the Interior, 1930
  3. 1 2 See the most recent studies carried out by Enrico Faini (University of Firenze): Enrico Faini, "Uomini e famiglie nella Firenze consolare", Firenze 2009, p. 23
  4. Participation in the Great Council was established on hereditary right, exclusive to the patrician families enrolled in the Golden Book of the Venetian nobility
  5. 1 2 Bernini, Nicola La lastra tombale di Gherarduccio dei Gherardini nella Pieve di Sant'Appiano, Commentari d'arte : rivista di critica e storia dell'arte : 42/43, 1/2, 2009, - De Luca Editori d'Arte, p. 45-53
  6. 1 2 Niccolò Machiavelli (1532). The History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent : Together with The Prince, and Various Historical Tract. pp. 50–67–72–81. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  7. 1 2 Ponsonby and Murphy (1879). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. Fourth series. Vol. IV. The Association of Ireland. p. 258. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  8. 1 2 Mona Lisa descendant just grins and bears it
  9. In tal senso, si vedano gli studi di Enrico Faini: "I Gherardini e gli Amidei sono, per la prima metà del XII secolo, due rari esempi del coinvolgimento nell'alta società cittadina di stirpi dotate di una certa concentrazione di possessi campagnoli. Con ogni probabilità le due famiglie derivarono da un unico gruppo parentale denominato nei primi decenni del secolo XII «nepotes Ceci»". Enrico Faini, Uomini e famiglie nella Firenze consolare, Firenze 2009, p. 23
  10. According to a study carried out by Enrico Faini of the University of Florence, prof. Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur and prof. Andrea Zorzi ("Il gruppo dirigente fiorentino nell'età consolare" n "Archivio Storico", CLXII (2004), p. 210), there were about ten old aristocratic families who moved to Florence from 1000 and 1100: Amidei; Ardinghi; Brunelleschi; Buondelmonti; Caponsacchi; Donati; Fifanti; Gherardini; Guidi; Nerli; Porcelli; Scolari; Uberti; Visdomini.
  11. 1 2 Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (Directrice d'Études all'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) "Ritorno alla politica. I magnati fiorentini 1340–1440", Edizioni Viella, 2009. pp. 206, 236, 238.
  12. Dino Compagni, "Cronica delle cose occorrenti ne' tempi suoi" .
  13. "I Gherardini ed il Castello di Montagliari", Giuseppe Corazzini, Ed. Landi, Firenze 1897
  14. "Storia di Poggibonsi" by Francesco Pratelli – Lalli Editore. Poggibonsi, 1990.
  15. 1 2 Ponsonby and Murphy (1879). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. Fourth series. Vol. IV. The Association of Ireland. p. 257. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  16. 1 2 Fitzgibbon, A. "Appendix to the Unpublished Geraldine Documents: The Gherardini of Tuscany", The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Fourth Series, Vol. 4, No. 29, 1877
  17. "I Gherardini ed il Castello di Montagliari" di Corazzini; "Unpublished Gherardini documents" Samuel Hayman; "Vignamaggio e Montagliari dal XIV ad oggi" AA.VV; Mini in "Discorso sopra la nobiltà di Firenze"
  18. For further information on the Gherardini's rule of these fiefs, see: Iotti, “San Polo d'Enza, Feudatari e Comunità, 1988, edito dal Comune di San Polo.
  19. Enciclopedia Storica Nobiliare italiana, di Vittorio Spreti, V.III, 1930, p.418.
  20. Repertorio Genealogico delle famiglie confermate nobili nelle province Venete. Francesco Schroder, Segretario di Governo, Venezia 1830, p.367
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  22. Ponsonby and Murphy (1879). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. Fourth series. Vol. IV. The Association of Ireland. p. 252. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  23. "La leggenda dei tre Valdesani conquistatori dell'Irlanda", V. Uzielli, Firenze, 1906.
  24. Sir John Thomas Gilbert (1865). History of the Viceroys of Ireland: With Notices of the Castle of Dublin and Its Chief Occupants in Former Times. James Duffy. pp. 467–473–474.
  25. 1 2 3 4 Who were Francesco del Giocondo and his wife Lisa Gherardini
  26. Pallanti 2006, p. 37
  27. 1 2 3 4 Famiglie celebri di Italia. Medici di Firenze / P. Litta Litta, Pompeo (1781-1851), Bibliotheque Nationale de France
  28. Ponsonby and Murphy (1879). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. Fourth series. Vol. IV. The Association of Ireland. pp. 263–264.
  29. Alvaro Spagnesi, Sergio Pacciani, Santo Stefano al Ponte Vecchio, Edizioni della Meridiana, Firenze 1999.
  30. Si veda il saggio di Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian, "Alessandro Turchi detto l'Orbetto (1578–1649)", Milano, Electa, 1999.
  31. Marco Chiarini (1985). "Alessandro Gherardini, Prince Ferdinando de' Medici and the Pitti Palace". The Burlington Magazine. 127 (992): 762–765. JSTOR   882331 . Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  32. P. Molaro (2011). "Possible portrait of Galileo Galilei as a young scientist". academia.edu. p. 1. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  33. Karl von Gebler (1879). "Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia". archive.org. p. 4. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  34. Mons. Ferrandino Fiorini "Sant'Appiano. Un'antica pieve in Val d'Elsa" Arti grafiche Nencini, 1997.
  35. Arte: Contessa Gherardini, Erede Di Monna Lisa Sono Io
  36. Sette, Corriere della Sera, 28 March 2014, n.13. Cover: "Kennedy, l'Italiano". Title of the article at page 28: "Dall'America a Firenze passando per l'Irlanda. Così andando a ritroso fino ai "figli di Gerald" abbiamo ritrovato Kennedy "l'italiano".
  37. Contribution of Fitzgerald Dynasty Examined at Conference