Angela Hartnett was born in Kent to Patrick Hartnett, an Irish sailor in the Merchant Navy and Giuliana, a Welsh mother whose parents had migrated from Bardi in Italy to the Welsh town of Ferndale.
In 1269 the castle was stormed by the Guelphs, and the commune of Piacenza held it until 1307, when Emperor Henry VII gave it back to Umbertino II Landi.
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Galeazzo I Visconti of Milan obtained a notable victory over the Guelphs in the nearby on November 29, 1321.
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In 1257 the Ghibelline Landi of Piacenza acquired it, remaining lord of Bardi for the following four centuries.
His father was a wool merchant from Hull who became a key figure during the reign of Edward III: after the collapse of the Bardi and Peruzzi families, he emerged as Edward's chief financier.
In 1343 the Peruzzi consortium collapsed and was bankrupt in 1345, with their partners in risk-capital, the Bardi.
In 1672 he bought the principate of Bardi and Compiano from Gianandrea Doria Landi, giving the Duchy its final shape.
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Approximate formation date of the Florentine Camerata, at the salon of Count Giovanni de' Bardi (earliest record is January 14, 1573).
The Bardi Ardyaloon hatchery has successfully produced Trochus shell at One Arm Point for a number of years, including reseeding the reef surrounding the area.
The nobility of the Bardi family has been documented since the year 1164, which is when Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa relinquished the county of Vernio to Count Alberto, along with “the right to confer the noble title on his descendents.”.
The Florentine Camerata - a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence, also known as the Camerata de' Bardi
Giovanni de' Bardi (February 5, 1534 – September 1612), Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier.
In 1947, Assis Chateaubriand invited Pietro Maria Bardi to establish and run a Museum of Art.