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Filippo Strozzi the Elder (4 July 1428 – 14 May 1491) was an Italian banker and statesman, a member of the affluent Strozzi family of Florence. He was born in Florence to Matteo Strozzi (son of Simone Strozzi and Andreina Rondinelli) and Alessandra Macinghi (daughter of Filippo Macinghi). [1]
The Strozzi opposed the Medici and so Cosimo the Elder banned the family’s male members from Florence in 1434. Filippo Strozzi’s exile was lifted in 1466 and on his return home he devoted his energies to building a residence with the ambition of creating the “largest and finest palazzo” in Florence.
Introducing the Douce Pliny. One of the last incunables to be digitized for the Polonsky Project is one of the very finest. The first translation of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History into Italian was published by the Strozzi family of Florence in 1476.
The next Chapel, of the Strozzi, contains the sarcophagus of Filippo Strozzi the elder (d. 1491), builder of the Strozzi Palace, and an exquisite Tondo of the Madonna and Child, by Benedetto da Majano (1442–1498).
Filippo Strozzi the Elder was an Italian banker and statesman, a member of the affluent Strozzi family of Florence.
Filippo Strozzi the Elder (1428 – 1491) was an outspoken opponent of the Medici, who was banished from Florence by Cosimo de' Medici and established himself in Naples. After returning to Florence in 1466, he became an adviser to Lorenzo de' Medici and began construction of the Strozzi palace, which remains one of the most imposing mansions of ...
Filippo Strozzi (known today as ‘the Elder’) reconciled with the Medici in 1466 and returned to Florence. The old competitive streak ran deep, though, and when Filippo set about building his family a palazzo, he fixated on outdoing their old rivals.
