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Stinche Prison, the Glossary

The Stinche Prison (Italian: carcere delle Stinche) was a prison on Via Ghibellina in the city of Florence, Italy.^[1]

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Buildings and structures in Florence
Defunct prisons in Italy

Bardi family

The House of Bardi was an influential Florentine family that started the powerful banking company Compagnia dei Bardi.

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Bargello

The Bargello, also known as the i or i ("Palace of the People"), is a former barracks and prison in Florence, Italy.

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The Battle of Benevento was a major medieval battle fought on 26 February 1266, near Benevento in present-day Southern Italy, between the forces of Charles I of Anjou and those of King Manfred of Sicily.

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Cavalcanti

Cavalcanti is an Italian surname.

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Cennino Cennini

Cennino d'Andrea Cennini (c. 1360 – before 1427) was an Italian painter influenced by Giotto.

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Cosimo de' Medici

Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (27 September 1389 – 1 August 1464) was an Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers of Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Florin

The Florentine florin was a gold coin (in Italian Fiorino d'oro) struck from 1252 to 1533 with no significant change in its design or metal content standard during that time.

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Giovanni da San Giovanni

Giovanni da San Giovanni (20 March 1592 – 9 December 1636), also known as Giovanni Mannozzi, was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period, active in Florence.

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Giovanni Villani

Giovanni Villani (1276 or 1280 – 1348)Bartlett (1992), 35.

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Girolamo Savonarola

Girolamo Savonarola, OP (21 September 1452 – 23 May 1498) or Jerome Savonarola was an ascetic Dominican friar from Ferrara and a preacher active in Renaissance Florence.

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Greve in Chianti

Greve in Chianti (the old name was Greve; in 1972 it was renamed Greve in Chianti after the inclusion of that area in the Chianti wine district) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

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Guelphs and Ghibellines

The Guelphs and Ghibellines (guelfi e ghibellini) were factions supporting respectively the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in the Italian city-states of Central Italy and Northern Italy during the Middle Ages.

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.

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Orcagna

Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo (c. 1308 – 25 August 1368), better known as Orcagna, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect active in Florence.

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Palazzo Vecchio

The italic ("Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy.

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Peruzzi

The Peruzzi family were bankers of Florence, among the leading families of the city in the 14th century, before the rise to prominence of the Medici.

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Republic of Florence

The Republic of Florence (Repubblica di Firenze), known officially as the Florentine Republic (Repubblica Fiorentina), was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on the Italian city of Florence in Tuscany, Italy.

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Roman Amphitheatre of Florence

The Roman Amphitheatre of Florence was a Roman amphitheatre in Florence, Central Italy.

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Roman Theatre of Florence

The Roman Theatre of Florence was a Roman theatre dated to the 1st century in Florentia, Italy.

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Saint Anne

According to apocrypha, as well as Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus.

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Teatro Verdi (Florence)

Teatro Verdi is a theatre in Florence, Italy.

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Torre della Zecca

The Torre della Zecca (Mint Tower) is a tower in the city walls of Florence, closing the city off from the river Arno to the east and thus known as a "torre terminale".

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Uberti

Uberti is a surname.

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Walter VI, Count of Brienne

Walter VI of Brienne (c. 1304 – 19 September 1356) was a French nobleman and crusader.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinche_Prison