Groups

Dini

The Florentine government awarded Giovanni di Dino the right to include the motto Liberty on the Dini family coat of arms thanks to his service on the War Council (Otto della Guerra) during the War of the Eight Saints fought against Pope Gregory XI between 1375 and 1378.

Alternate Names

Dini da Vicchio
Dini speziali

Heraldry Information

1. D'argento, all'albero sradicato al naturale, i.e.
Argent, a tree proper eradicated, i.e.
Silver shield with a natural, uprooted tree.

2. Idem; con il capo di rosso, caricato del motto LIBERTÀ (o LIBERTAS) in caratteri d'oro, i.e.
Argent, a tree proper eradicated, on a chief gules Libertas Or, i.e.
Silver shield with a natural, uprooted tree under a red banner carrying the motto Liberty in gold.

Group Type
Held One or More Priorates?	yes
Year of First Priorate	1370
Year of Last Priorate	1531
Total Priorates Held	19
Ceramelli Number	1766
Branded Magnate?	no
Malespini Lineage	no
Dante Lineage	no
Villani Lineage	no
Molho Rank	High Status
Padgett Rank	New men, 1343-1377
Padgett Lineage	yes
Litchfield Lineage	yes
Database ID	342

Family Members (11 total)

Memorials (9 total)

S. Croce 001a Altare di S. Bastiano de Dini		circa 1547 (date is approximate) to circa 1883 (date is approximate)
S. Croce 001b sepoltura di Agostino Dini		circa 1547 (date is approximate) to circa 1883 (date is approximate) a
S. Croce 111.2 Francesco Dini
S. Croce 122 0
S. Croce 54 0
S. Croce cemetery 098.2 Donato di Dino Dini
S. Maria Novella 574 0
S. Martino a Gangalandi 6 Lorenzo Dini 1508
S. Spirito cloister 177 Dino di S. Cenni		1300s to 1700s

Locations (4 total)

Leon Nero, S. Croce, Florence		by 1439 b
S. Felice in Piazza, Ferza, S. Spirito, Florence		August 11th, 1343 to circa 1438 (date is approximate) c
S. Felice in Piazza, Ferza, Oltrarno, Florence		early fourteenth century
Vicchio di Rimaggio, Tuscany, Italy		late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries d

Sources (6 total)

ASF, Ceramelli Papiani Online	fasc. 1766
U. Verino, De illustratione urbis Florentiae, Carlo Strozzi ed.	pp. 67
R. B. Litchfield, Emergence of a Bureaucracy	pp. 370
H. Wills, Florentine heraldry	pp. 138
ASF, Manoscritti, 251, Priorista Mariani IV	fol. 914v-915
J. Padgett, Open Elite?	app. p. 11

Notes

[a] Though the tomb still survives, the inscription and arms are so abraded that they are practically illegible.
[b] Francesco di Piero di M. Giovanni Dini moved to the Leon Nero district no later than 1439 when he was placed in its sortition purse for the Sixteen, which he served in early 1441. According to the Priorista Mariani completed in 1722, Giuseppe Maria d'Agostino Dini was living in Borgo di Santa Croce.
[c] The Priorista Mariani places the Dini in the S. Felice parish, and the family's first three priors served the Ferza district between 1370 and 1436.
[d] Dino di S. Cenni moved from Vicchio di Rimaggio to Florence and settled in the parish of S. Felice in Piazza.