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Annunziata Boarding School), currently known as Educandato Statale Santissima Annunziata, was the first female boarding school to be founded in Florence, dating back to 1823. Originally intended for the daughters of Marquis Gino Capponi , the institute was created to educate aristocratic and noble girls, under the patronage of Maria Anna of ...
Her parents were Ellen Maria (born Greg) and George Melly. She was "of independent means" having grandparents who were mill owners and agents for the Egyptian government. [ 1 ] Florence inherited an interest in education from her father and she joined Liverpool's school board [ 1 ] which was a role open to women interested in politics.
She was the fourth of seven children. Her father, the son of an English schoolteacher, emigrated from England to Texas with his parents in 1880. Her mother was a schoolteacher who grew up and worked in Kerrville, Texas. [1] Both her parents were devout, tithing Baptists. [2] In 1924, she married Howard Edward Butt. Howard owned a small grocery ...
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Some sources trace the origins of the family to a Gottifredo who lived in Florence in the twelfth century. [2] The first documented member of the family is Cambio di Salvi, who in 1335 was among both the gonfalonieri and the priori . [2] In all, twenty members were gonfaloniere and sixty-two occupied the position of priore. [2]
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]
Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524–1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first ever known female Renaissance painter of Florence. [1] She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine of Siena located in Piazza San Marco, Florence, and was heavily influenced by the teachings of Savonarola and by the artwork of Fra Bartolomeo.
Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet, JP, DL (12 November 1819 – 5 December 1889), was the son of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist and author of Frankenstein. He was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to live beyond infancy.