Individuals

Dini, Giovanni (messer) di Dino di S. Cenni a

Description

Giovanni di Dino Dini was a member of the Otto di balìa, the committee appointed to oversee the war against Pope Gregory XI, later known as the War of the Eight Saints in honor of the balìa. Dini and his fellow councilmen received shields with their family arms surmounted by red bands carrying LIBERTAS in gold letters and other gifts, including spears and silver spoons, which were paraded through the streets to blaring trumpet on April 21, 1376. Dini was knighted, taking on the title messer, on July 20, 1378, initially a status that led to disenfranchisement, but ultimately an honor as seen in later histories like those by Scipione Ammirato and the Priorista Mariani.

Birth Family	Dini
Gender	male
Age at Death	unknown
Database ID	4110

Life Dates

1342 to 1380

active

Employments (2 total)

Cavaliere (Title used for knights, bishops, high ecclesiastics)	April 22nd, 1378

Posts (7 total)

Office	Government	Date
Ambassador (Ambasciatore)	Other	1342
Gonfaloniere di Comapgnia (Advisory Councilor, Sixteen) one of two advisory councils (Collegi): the Gonfalonieri di Compagnia discussed legislation in consultation with Signoria 19 Gonfalonieri di Compagnia (the standard bearers of the urban militia--four from the Sestiere of Oltrarno and three from each of the remaining Sestieri--from ca. 1304-06) after 1343 number of Gonfalonieri di Compagnia was reduced from 19 to 16, one from each of the four Gonfaloni in each of the four quarters Online Tratte Code: 16	Tre Maggiori	May 7th, 1368 to September 6th, 1368 b
	Tre Maggiori	June 25th, 1369 to September 14th, 1369 c
	Tre Maggiori	May 1st, 1370 to June 30th, 1370
Gonfaloniere di Comapgnia (Advisory Councilor, Sixteen) one of two advisory councils (Collegi): the Gonfalonieri di Compagnia discussed legislation in consultation with Signoria 19 Gonfalonieri di Compagnia (the standard bearers of the urban militia--four from the Sestiere of Oltrarno and three from each of the remaining Sestieri--from ca. 1304-06) after 1343 number of Gonfalonieri di Compagnia was reduced from 19 to 16, one from each of the four Gonfaloni in each of the four quarters Online Tratte Code: 16	Tre Maggiori	May 7th, 1373 to September 6th, 1373
	Other	August 14th, 1375 to spring 1378
	Tre Maggiori	May 1st, 1376 to June 30th, 1376

Memorials (1 total)

S. Spirito cloister 177 Dino di S. Cenni

after 1380

Related Individuals (1 total)

son of Dini, Dino di S. Cenni (da Vicchio)

Extended Family (1 total)

Grandparents

Dini, Cenni (ser) (da Vicchio)

Related Groups (1 total)

Arte dei Medici e Speziali

Locations (1 total)

S. Felice in Piazza, Ferza, S. Spirito, Florence

August 11th, 1343 to 1380

Sources (2 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 251, Priorista Mariani IV	fol. 914-914v
D. Herlihy et al., Online Tratte	rec. 52675, 319078, 118373, 63646, 52676, 118374, 118370

Notes

[a] For more on the War of the Eight Saints and subsequent disenfranchisement see David S. Peterson, "7. The War of the Eight Saints in Florentine Memory and Oblivion." In Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence, edited by William J. Connell, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 173-214 (https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520928220-010); and John M. Najemy, A History of Florence 1200-1575. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008, 151-155 and 161.
[b] Giovanni di Dino was elected on April 28th, 1368 from S. Spirito Ferza.
[c] Giovanni di Dino's name-slip was pulled from a 1357 purse on June 25th, 1369 to replace Neri Pitti who seems to have died shortly after taking office on June 15th.
[d] Giovanni certainly would have inherited his father's tomb, and it is likely that he chose it for his own burial.
[e] Giovanni di Dino is documented representing the Ferza district of S. Spirito in the priorate, and the Priorista Mariani notes that his family resided in the parish of S. Felice in Piazza. His grandson Francesco di Piero moved to S. Croce Leon Nero by 1442.