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The Amidei family was an ancient Italian noble family from Florence, Italy. The family was of Roman descent but lived in Florence since its foundation.[1][2] They have been described by Niccolò Machiavelli as being one of the most powerful families of its time, and were featured in Dante's poems on the political struggles of the Guelphs and Ghibellines in medieval Italy.[3] Ancestors of the House of Piccolomini, Patricians of Siena, they married into the Medici family during the 20th century.[4][5][6] The Amidei also claimed a Julia gens (Gens Iulia) ancestry, through the Cottius family, Patricians of Rome.[7]
- ^ Le famiglie di Firenze, Roberto Ciabani, Collana: Le grandi opere, Bonechi editore, 1993
- ^ Ponsonby and Murphy (1879). The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. Fourth series. Vol. IV. The Association of Ireland. pp. 263–264. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ Niccolò Machiavelli (1532). The History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent : Together with The Prince, and Various Historical Tract. p. 50. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- ^ Fabio Stok. "Aeneas redivivus: Piccolomini and Virgil: From Piccolomini to Pope Pius II, Musings on a Renaissance Holy Man". www.academia.edu. Baylor University (Waco, Texas). p. 6. Retrieved 2022-11-02.
- ^ Giovanni Nuzzo (2009). La "Chrysis" di Enea Silvio Piccolomini. Note di lettura (PDF), in Mario Blancato e Giovanni Nuzzo (a cura di), La commedia latina: modelli, forme, ideologia, fortuna, Palermo (PDF). Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico. pp. 135–147. ISBN 9788890705717. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Roberta Mucciarelli, op. cit. Archived 2014-05-18 at the Wayback Machine, p. 2
- ^ Fabio Stok. "Aeneas redivivus: Piccolomini and Virgil: From Piccolomini to Pope Pius II, Musings on a Renaissance Holy Man". www.academia.edu. Baylor University (Waco, Texas). p. 6. Retrieved 2022-11-02.