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Groups

Città di Firenze a

Alternate Names

  • Città di Firenze
  • Comune di Firenze
  • Firenze
  • Repubblica di Firenze
  • Repubblica Fiorentina

Heraldry Information

D'argento, al Giglio rosso aperto bocciolato e bottonato, i.e.

Silver shield with red fleur-de-lis (lily)

Group Type
Database ID 2187

Memorials (2 total)

Carmine 323 Pila dell'Acqua Santa a destra
S. Verdiana 2 architrave della porta del cortile
1402 to 1808

Notes

  • [a] In 1251, the Guelfs changed the colors of the Florentine flag, which had been a silver lily on a red field, to a red lily on a silver, or white, field, a change referenced by Dante in Paradiso XVI:153-154 and Giovanni Villani, Cronica, VI.43. This configuration remains the symbol of Florence today. The Florentine republic was constituted from 1282 through 1532 after which it became a duchy, ruled by the Medici family through the death of Grand Duke Gian Gastone on 9 July 1737.