Dante Alighieri, most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
The Pazzi conspiracy was a failed plot by members of the Pazzi family and others to displace the Medici family as rulers of Renaissance Florence.
Domenico di Michelino (1417–1491) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was born and died in Florence. His real name was Domenico di Francesco. The patronymic "di Michelino" was adopted in honour of his teacher, the cassone painter Michelino di Benedetto, by whom no works have been identified. Giorgio Vasari reports that Domenico was also a pupil of Fra Angelico, whose influence is reflected in many of Domenico's paintings along with that of Filippo Lippi and Pesellino.
Piero di Tommaso Soderini, also known as Pier Soderini, was an Italian statesman of the Republic of Florence.
The Republic of Lucca was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on the Italian city of Lucca in Tuscany, which lasted from 1160 to 1805.
Mario Balassi (1604–1667) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Florence and Rome.
Leonardo Ximenes was a famous Italian Jesuit, mathematician, engineer, astronomer and geographer from Sicily.
Giacomo Alboresi (1632–1677) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Sante I Bentivoglio was an Italian nobleman who ruled as tyrant or de facto prince of Bologna from 1445 to 1462.
Ruggero Panerai was an Italian painter.
Nestore Leoni was an Italian painter and illuminator of manuscripts (miniatore).
Filadelfo Simi was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Dante Sodini was an Italian sculptor, mainly of religious subjects and funereal monuments.
Ida Pinto-Sezzi was an Italian painter.
Annibale Gatti was an Italian painter, known for history painting and fresco decoration in Tuscany.
The Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca was the first dictionary of the Italian language, published in 1612 by the Accademia della Crusca. It was also only the second dictionary of a modern European language, being just one year later than the Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española by Sebastián de Covarrubias in Spain in 1611.
Marisa Mori was an Italian painter and printmaker. She was one of the few female artists in the Futurism movement.
Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli or Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni was an Italian civil servant and essayist. Born and dying in Florence, he served as director of the Uffizi Gallery from 1775 to 1793. He was the last member of a Florentine patrician family.
Andrea Calamech (1524-1589) was an Italian sculptor and architect.
Il Malmantile racquistato is a mock-heroic epic poem by Lorenzo Lippi (1606–65) first published posthumously in 1676.
