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The Adimari were one of the forty families named by Dante in Paradiso 16.88-139 as great in his grandfather Cacciaguida's day, but by his time diminished: "per che non dee parer mirabil cosa / ciò ch'io dirò de li alti Fiorentini / onde è la fama nel tempo nascosa." (Think it not then a marvel if I bring / To mind full many a noble Florentine / Whose fame is hid with time, a vanished thing. Sayers trans.) The family developed numerous branches under different surnames, and tracing individual members in the family trees found in the Carte Mariani Dei and Carte Pucci can be quite difficult as the trees are crowded and seem to contain mistakes of descent.
According to a notation in the Priorista Mariani (248, fol. 228) priors listed under the surname Bonfantini were in fact from the Adimari family, as further explained in notes by the same hand in the Passerini archive (193/3, ins. 2, fol. 2v-6, esp. fol. 5v). Thus, the nine priorates listed under the Bonfantini with a shield divided into four diagonal sections alternating gold and blue in the Priorista Mariani (party per saltire Or and azure, fol. 227v) have been added to the total given for the Adimari here. See the notations at each family (Manoscritti 248, fols. 156 and 228) as well as a lengthy explanation of the confusion in Passerini 193/3, ins. 2, fol. 2v-6.
Alternate Names
Accorsi
Alammani
Aldimari
Benzi
Boccacci
Boccaccini
Bonaccorsi
Bonfantini
Buonaccorsi di S. Cristofano
Franceschi del Corso
Frasca
Rinieri
Roberti
Trita
Heraldry Information
1. Troncato d'oro e d'azzurro, i.e.
Per fess Or and azure, i.e.
Shield divided horizontally with gold over blue
2. Troncato d'oro e d'azzurro, allo scudetto del Popolo fiorentino attraversante.
3. Troncato d'oro e d'azzurro, allo scudetto attraversante d'argento, caricato di un leone di....
4. Troncato d'oro e d'azzurro, alla croce di Pisa attraversante d'argento.
5. Troncato di... e di..., alla fascia di... passata sulla troncatura e alla crocetta ritrinciata di... posta nel 1°.
6. Di nero, all'aquila dal volo abbassato d'argento, caricata di sei crescenti montanti del campo.
[c] The Adimari arms are in the vault and floor tomb in front of the door of the sacristy.
[d] According to notations in the Priorista Mariani (ASFi, Manoscritti, 248, fol. 228) and a more extensive description in the Passerini archive (BNCF, Passerini, 193/3, ins. 2: Adimari), the priors assigned to the Bonfantini in fact belonged to the Adimari clan, though where exactly they fit into that large lineage remains unclear.
[e] household of Filippo di Mainardo degli Adimari and his brothers, mother, and children
