The Valori family belonged to

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...

during a period of the

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...

, they were prominent in Florentine politics for five generations.

Chapel at San Procolo

The family had a chapel in San Procolo, containing ''Crucifixion'' by the artist

Filippino Lippi Filippino Lippi (April 1457 – 18 April 1504) was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance. Biography Filippino Lippi was born in Prato, Tu ...

. The high altar there was painted by

Giotto Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/ Proto-Renaissance period. G ...

Bartolemeo di Filippo

Was born on the 31st of August 1436, Filippo was on friendly terms with

Lorenzo di Medici Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, banker, ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo ...

, and funded Ficino's translation of Plato after the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478. A correspondence written prior to June the 2nd 1484, shows Ficino reports Filippo is having the corpus of Plato published at his own expense. He was a student of Traversari. A principal member of the

Council of Florence The Council of Florence is the seventeenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held between 1431 and 1449. It was convoked as the Council of Basel by Pope Martin V shortly before his death in February 1431 and took place in ...

Francesco

He was born in 1438 and studied in the Platonic academy of Florence. He married to a lady of the Canigiani family. He served as ambassador for Florence, and was four time Gonfalonieri di Guistizia. Initially a supporter of the Medici, but upon the death of

Lorenzo il Magnifico Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, banker, ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo ...

in 1492, despite his oligarchic aristocratic leanings, he drew closer the partisans of

Savonarola Girolamo Savonarola, OP (, , ; 21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction ...

. This brought him into conflict with the partisans of the Medici, and as part of the Republican government Francesco pronounced death sentences on some prominent aristocrats linked to an unsuccessful plot to return Piero de' Medici to power, including Lorenzo Tornabuoni, Bernardo del Nero, G. Pucci, G. Cambi, and Niccolo Ridolfi. He had extracted some of this evidence through torture of Lamberto Dell'Antélla. These acts gained him enmity and with the fall of the Savonarola rule in April 1498, he was arrested, but murdered near the San Procolo chapel on route to his jailing at the Signoria by Vincenzio Ridolfi.

Niccolò

Was born sometime during 1464 and died during 1526. He wrote a history of

Lorenzo de' Medici Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, banker, ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo ...

, father to

Pope Leo X Pope Leo X ( it, Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521. Born into the prominent political an ...

.W Roscoe
The life and pontificate of Leo the tenth, 4th ed., revised by T. Roscoe (p.360)
published 1846 etrieved 2015-3-21/ref> He was a nephew to Francesco.

References

Sources

*{{cite book , last=Tomas , first=Natalie R. , title=The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence , publisher=Ashgate , location=Aldershot , year=2003 , isbn=0754607771

External links

Shepheard Walwyn Publishers Ltd, 1 Aug 2010
All Things Natural: Ficino on Plato's Timaeus
By

Marsilio Ficino Marsilio Ficino (; Latin name: ; 19 October 1433 – 1 October 1499) was an Italian scholar and Catholic priest who was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. He was an astrologer, a revive ...

The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook
(edited by KR. Bartlett) excerpt fro
The diary of Bartolemeo
Bibliotecha, Firenze shown in ''The Society of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study'' - edited by GA. Brucker Families of Florence