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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.
Filippo Strozzi the Younger (January 4, 1489 – December 18, 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 nationalist ...
Filippo Strozzi the Elder was an Italian banker and statesman, a member of the affluent Strozzi family of 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.
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.
The chapel was commissioned by Filippo Strozzi the Elder, who had acquired the patronage of the chapel from the Boni family around 1486, and shortly afterward drew up a contract with the painter from Prato.
