Salviati family

For other people with the same name, see Salviati.

Salviati
Salviati coat of arms in a stained-glass window of the Salviati Chapel in San Marco, Florence
Current region	Tuscany
Members	Antonio Maria Salviati (1537–1602) Bernardo Salviati (1508–1568) Filippo Salviati (1582–1614) Francesco Salviati (died 1478) Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553) Gregorio Salviati (1722–1794) Jacopo Salviati (1461–1533) Maria Salviati (1499–1543)

Adam and Eve, from the workshop of Giovanni della Robbia, with the Salviati arms at lower right (The Walters Art Museum)

The Salviati family was an important Italian noble family in the Republic of Florence. ^[1]

History

Some sources trace the origins of the family to a Gottifredo who lived in Florence in the twelfth century. ^[2] The first documented member of the family is Cambio di Salvi, who in 1335 was among both the gonfalonieri and the priori  [ it ]. ^[2] In all, twenty members were gonfaloniere and sixty-two occupied the position of priore. ^[2]

Members

• Francesco Salviati, archbishop of Pisa, hanged from the walls of the Palazzo della Signoria in 1478 for his part in the Pazzi Conspiracy ^[2]
• Giorgio Benigno Salviati (died 1520), Bosnian-born adopted member of the family, theologian and archbishop
• Jacopo Salviati (1461–1533), married Lucrezia de' Medici
• Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553), cardinal
• Maria Salviati (1499–1543), daughter of Lucrezia di Medici and Jacopo Salviati, married Giovanni delle Bande Nere, mother of Cosimo I de Medici.
• Bernardo Salviati (1508–1568), condottiere, general of the galleys of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and cardinal
• Cassandre Salviati, daughter of Bernardo Salviati, dedicatee of the Amours de Cassandre of Pierre de Ronsard ^[3]
• Diane Salviati, niece of Cassandre, dedicatee of the L’hécatombe à Diane of Agrippa d'Aubigné ^[3]
• Antonio Maria Salviati (1537–1602), appointed cardinal in 1583
• Alamanno Salviati, cardinal from 1727 until his death in 1733
• Gregorio Salviati, cardinal from 1777, died 1794
• Pietro Salviati, III Duke of Salviati (1887-1972), who in 1914 married in Palazzo Zilleri Maria Antoinetta Zilleri dal Verme, daughter of count Henri Zilleri dal Verme degli Obbizzi. ^[4]

References

1. Rendina, Claudio. Le grandi famiglie di Roma: la saga della nobiltà tra contee, marchesati, ducati e principati, sotto l'insegna di papi e cardinali, imperatori e re nello scenario di splendidi palazzi, sontuose ville e cappelle gentilizie. Newton Compton editori, 2004: p. 546
2. Roberto Palmarocchi (1936). Salviati (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed October 2015.
3. The Spring – The Hecatomb for Diane, VI | Le Printemps – L’hécatombe à Diane, VI. Global Medieval Sourcebook. Stanford University. Accessed September 2022.
4. "The New York herald". Gallica. 17 February 1914. Retrieved 27 September 2024.