Salviati family

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

The Salviati were a prominent Florentine family. Members of the family frequently occupied public positions; there were 20 Salviati gonfalonieri and 62 priori. The first recorded member of the family is Cambio di Salvi, who occupied both positions.[1]

Francesco Salviati, archbishop of Pisa, was hanged from the walls of the Palazzo della Signoria in 1478 for his part in the Pazzi Conspiracy.[1]

Cassandre Salviati, daughter of Bernardo Salviati (who moved in France with Catherine de' Medici and owned Château de Talcy) was the muse of poet Pierre de Ronsard, and her niece, Diane Salviati - of poet Agrippa d'Aubigné.

The last branch of this family still living is represented by the family Mugnaioni Montegiustia dei Salviati.

References

  1. 1 2 Roberto Palmarocchi (1936). Salviati (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed October 2015.

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