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Florence, Tuscany is in Tuscany.
See: Bellosguardo, Florence, Cimitero degli Allori, Florence, English Cemetery, Florence, Hotel Paoli, Florence, San Pancrazio, Via Santo Spirito, Florence.
In 1397 Archbishop Thomas Fitzalan aka Arundel (age 44) exiled to Florence, Tuscany for having opposed Kign Richard II.
In 1427 Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni was the sixth largest tax payer in Florence, Tuscany; 46,320 florins.
On 22nd June 1427 Lucrezia Tornabuoni was born to Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni in Florence, Tuscany.
On 2nd June 1448 Domenico Ghirlandaio was born in Florence, Tuscany.
In 1472 Thomas Spinelli was born at Florence, Tuscany.
On 12th March 1479 Giuliano Medici Duke Nemours was born to Lorenzo de Medici (age 30) and Clarice Orsini (age 29) at Florence, Tuscany.
On 12th September 1492 Lorenzo de Medici Duke of Urbino was born to Piero "The Unfortunate" de Medici (age 20) in Florence, Tuscany.
In 1562 Camilla Guicciardini was born to Vincenzo Guicciardini (age 43) at Florence, Tuscany.
Around 1590 Francesco Fanelli was born in Florence, Tuscany.
In January 1635 Charles Herbert (age 16) died in Florence, Tuscany.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
John Evelyn's Diary. 21st May 1645. We could not omit in our passage to re-visit the same, and other curiosities which we had neglected on our first being at Florence, Tuscany. We went, therefore, to see the famous piece of Andrea del Sarto, in the Annunciata. The story is, that the painter in a time of dearth borrowed a sack of corn of the religious of that convent, and repayment being demanded, he wrought it out in this picture, which represents Joseph sitting on a sack of corn, and reading to the Blessed Virgin; a piece infinitely valued. There fell down in the cloister an old man's face painted on the wall in fresco, greatly esteemed, and broke into crumbs; the Duke sent his best painters to make another instead of it, but none of them would presume to touch a pencil where Andrea had wrought, like another Apelles; but one of them was so industrious and patient, that, picking up the fragments, he laid and fastened them so artificially together, that the injury it had received was hardly discernible. Andrea del Sarto lies buried in the same place. Here is also that picture of Bartolomeo, who having spent his utmost skill in the face of the angel Gabriel, and being troubled that he could not exceed it in the Virgin, he began the body and to finish the clothes, and so left it, minding in the morning to work on the face; but, when he came, no sooner had he drawn away the cloth that was hung before it to preserve it from the dust, than an admirable and ravishing face was found ready painted; at which miracle all the city came in to worship. It is now kept in the Chapel of the Salutation, a place so enriched by devotees, that none in Italy, save Loretto, is said to exceed it. This picture is always covered with three shutters, one of which is of massy silver; methinks it is very brown, the forehead and cheeks whiter, as if it had been scraped. They report that those who have the honor of seeing it never lose their sight-happy then we! Belonging to this church is a world of plate, some whole statues of it, and lamps innumerable, besides the costly vows hung up, some of gold, and a cabinet of precious stones.
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Before April 1671 Thomas Clifford (age 19) died at Florence, Tuscany.
John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd April 1671. To Sir Thomas Clifford (age 40), the Treasurer, to condole with him on the loss of his eldest son (deceased), who died at Florence, Tuscany.
In 1703 Andrea Soldi was born in Florence, Tuscany.
In August 1727 Willoughby Bertie 3rd Earl of Abingdon (age 34) and Anna Maria Collins Countess Abingdon were married at Florence, Tuscany.
In February 1764 John Tylney 2nd Earl Tylney (age 51) was in at Florence, Tuscany.
On 10th March 1772 María Teresa Fernández Silva Duchess Veragua Duchess Berwick was born to Pedro Fernández Silva 10th Duke Híjar at Florence, Tuscany.
In 1786 Thomas Wynn 1st Baron Newborough (age 50) and Maria Stella Chiappini Baroness Newborough (age 12) were married at Florence, Tuscany. She by marriage Baroness Newborough of Newborough in County Wexford. The difference in their ages was 37 years.
On 6th November 1786 Horace Mann 1st Baronet (age 80) died unmarried at Florence, Tuscany. His nephew Horatio (age 42) succeeded 2nd Baronet Mann of Linton in Kent.
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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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In 1791 Louisa Pitt (age 37) died of tuberculosis in Florence, Tuscany. She was buried in the Old English Cemetery.
On 10th April 1793 Charles Brudenell 1st Marquess Ailesbury (age 20) and Henrietta Maria Hill were married in Florence, Tuscany. He the son of Thomas Brudenell 1st Earl Ailesbury (age 63) and Susanna Hoare Countess Ailesbury.
On 10th May 1794 Charlotte Henrietta Brudenell was born to Charles Brudenell 1st Marquess Ailesbury (age 21) and Henrietta Maria Hill at Florence, Tuscany.
In 1823 Charles Henry Ellice was born to Robert Charles Ellice (age 38) and Eliza Courtenay (age 30) in Florence, Tuscany.
On 29th January 1824 Louise Stolberg Gedern (age 71) died at Florence, Tuscany.
On 5th May 1829 Grenville Temple 10th Baronet (age 29) and Mary Baring (age 17) were married in Florence, Tuscany.
On 12th January 1856 John Singer Sargent was born to Fitzwilliam Sargent (age 36) and Mary Newbold Singer (age 30) in Florence, Tuscany.
In 1880 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 50) moved to Florence, Tuscany.
On 10th September 1916 D H Lawrence (age 30) and Rosalind Thornycroft (age 25) had supper on her terrace in Florence, Tuscany; the start of their affair.
On 2nd August 1908 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 79) died at the Villa Nutti, Bellosguardo [Map]. He was buried in the Cimitero degli Allori, Florence.
On 1st September 1947 Alice Frederica Edmonstone aka Keppel (age 79) died at the Villa dell'Ombrellino, Bellosguardo. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence.
The Cimitero degli Allori, Florence, "The Evangelical Cemetery at Laurels", as opened in 1877 when the non-Catholic communities of Florence could no longer bury their dead in the English Cemetery in Piazzale Donatello. It is named after the Allori farm where it was located.
On 2nd August 1908 John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope (age 79) died at the Villa Nutti, Bellosguardo [Map]. He was buried in the Cimitero degli Allori, Florence.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 21st January 1917 Francesca Alexander (age 79) died of bronchial pneumonia at Florence, Tuscany. She was buried at the Cimitero degli Allori, Florence.
In December 1866 Fanny Waugh (age 33) died either from childbirth or from cholera. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence next to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in a tomb sculpted by her husband William Holman Hunt (age 39).
In 1867 Mary Spencer-Stanhope (age 7) died of scarlet fever. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence. Her headstone was designed by her father.
On 1st September 1947 Alice Frederica Edmonstone aka Keppel (age 79) died at the Villa dell'Ombrellino, Bellosguardo. She was buried at the English Cemetery, Florence.
On 31st December 1895 Hillyar George Edwin Hill-Trevor was born to George Edwyn Hill-Trevor at the Hotel Paoli, Florence in Florence.
On 6th September 1649 Robert Dudley (age 75) died at Villa Rinieri. He was buried at San Pancrazio.
In 1847 Charles Francis Fuller (age 17) joined the army, first with the 14th Foots and afterwards the 12th Lancers. In 1853 he resigned from the British army and traveled to Florence, where he studied with the American sculptor Hiram Powers; the only pupil Powers consented to accept. The London Art Journal reported that he made such progress under Powers that, "in a comparatively short space of time his own studio was much frequented by the English, who took an interest in his works." Fuller maintained his ties to England by exhibiting his works at the Royal Academy, but, like Powers and a group of other American and British expatriate sculptors, made Florence his home living at Casa Frescobaldi, Via Santo Spirito.