Groups

Alberighi

Cacciaguida names the Alberighi as among the formerly powerful families that had declined in his day (Paradiso 16.89) Giovanni Villani (5.10-11) names them as one of the families resident in the porta San Piero neighborhood from early eleventh century, but that they had died out by his own day. According to Marchionne di Coppo Stefani in his Istoria Fiorentina, a tomb on the stairs of Santa Maria Novella was dedicated to Bernardo di Alberigo Alberighi and carried his coat of arms showing three chains linked at the center by a ring. This tomb was restored in the sixteenth century by another Bernardo and his brother Amerigo, the sons of Giovanni d'Amerigo di Giovanni di Tommaso di Niccolò Alberighi. This connection raises questions about whether the family indeed completely die out in the thirteenth or fourteenth century or if relatives from the contado (they family had castles in Certaldo) had moved to Florence and continued the line.