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The Donati family was a wealthy family in medieval Florence. She was betrothed to Dante in 1277 [3] when he was either 11 [4] or 12 years old. Her dowry was only 200 florins, which suggests that Dante's family had no substantial assets by the mid-1270s. Nevertheless, an alliance with the Donati family through marriage was socially prestigious. [5]
The couple wanted to increase their influence outside of Florence, especially in the Roman courts. [32] In spring 1467, she visited the Pope again while seeking women suitable to marry her son Lorenzo. [33] [19] To improve the family's social status, Lucrezia arranged for her son to marry Clarice Orsini in June 1469. [32]
Clarice and Lorenzo married 4 June 1469, [3] with a four-day celebration. [4] The marriage was arranged by Lorenzo's mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni, who wanted her eldest son to marry a woman from a noble family to enhance the social status of the Medicis. [2] Their marriage was unusual for Florence at the time in that they were nearly the same age ...
In May 1494 she married the Piero Ridolfi (1467–1525): a careful marriage to a man from a local Florentine family, planned by her father Lorenzo to counter local anxieties about the ambitions of the Medici, since Florentines were alarmed by the marriages of her siblings Piero and Maddalena to powerful families from other cities. [1]
Alessandra di Filippo Macinghi was born between 1406 and 1408 to Filippo di Niccolò Macinghi and Caterina di Bernardo Alberti. [1] The date of her birth is contested as the final entry in her book of accounts in 1471 gives her age as 63 but a tax document from 1427 claims her age to be 22 years and 2 months. [1]
Christina Novak’s four-sentence obit for her mom, Florence “Flo” Harrelson, was published in the Kennebec Journal on Aug. 30. The succinct write-up stated that the 65-year-old died ...
Doris Price eschewed making any deals with Kodak, whereas Florence wanted to seek a compromise. The rift continued to grow, with Price becoming concerned that Florence was becoming too much of a ...
Florence Moltrop Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932) was an American social and political reformer who coined the term wage abolitionism.Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, [1] and children's rights [2] is widely regarded today.