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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]
Filippo Strozzi the Elder was an Italian banker and statesman, a member of the affluent Strozzi family of Florence.
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).
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.
Much of the interest in Filippo's career stems from the careful path he trod between the Scylla of belonging to a lineage identified from I434 onwards as one of the greatest enemies of the Medici regime, and the Charybdis of a belated career in Florentine politics sponsored by Piero and Lorenzo 'de' Medici. Curiously, all of Filippo Strozzi's
Filippo Strozzi the Younger (4 January 1489 – 18 December 1538) was a Florentine banker, and the most famous member of the Strozzi family in the Renaissance. He is best remembered as a tragic hero and defender of the lost Florentine republic against the Medici dukes – yet this is almost entirely a nineteenth-century fiction of ...
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 ...
