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10 unusual facts about Corsini


Andrew Corsini

Corsini was born in Florence on November 30, 1302, a member of the illustrious Corsini family.

Angelino Dulcert

Angelino "Dalorto" is known for a portolan chart commonly dated 1325 (now revised to 1330), privately held by the Prince Corsini collection in Florence.

Giovanni Battista Foggini

In Florence, his masterpieces are his sculptural relief work in the Capella Corsini of the Chiesa del Carmine.

Giovanni Fattori

His visits to the estate of the Princes Corsini in Maremma in 1881 and 1882 culminated in a series of paintings of cowherds, some of which were exhibited at the Esposizione Nazionale in Venice in 1887.

Giuseppe Agostino Orsi

He held this position for two years, after which he became the theologian of Cardinal Neri Corsini, nephew of Pope Clement XII.

Palazzo Corsini

In 1736, the Florentine Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, nephew of Pope Clement XII (formerly Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini), acquired the villa and land, and commissioned the structure now standing.

The majority of the major works in the Corsini Gallery collection were donated by the Corsini family, and initially were gathered by the avid 17th century collector, the cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, and added to by other members and from collections of Pope Clement XII and his nephew.

The Palazzo Corsini is a prominent late-baroque palace in Rome, erected for the Corsini family between 1730-1740 as an elaboration of the prior building on the site, a 15th-century villa of the Riario family, based on designs of Ferdinando Fuga.

Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

The Corsini, probably the richest family in Florence during the 17th–18th centuries, had this chapel built in 1675, to hold the remains of St. Andrew Corsini, O.Carm. (1301–1374), a member of the family who became a Carmelite friar and the Bishop of Fiesole, who had been canonized in 1629.

Vincenzo Meucci

He was patronized by the Marchese Giovan Battista Salimbeni of Siena, as well as the cardinals Alessandro Chigi Zondadari and Neri Corsini.


Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia

Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia (born 30 September 1971) is an Italian actor, voice-over artist, and entertainer perhaps best known for his role in the television program Melevisione on Raitre (as Gnomo Ronfo) and his roles in RIS Delitti Imperfetti (as Capt. Bruno Corsini) films on Canale 5.

Luciano Manara

With the remains of Emilio Morosini and Enrico Dandolo (the latter having been killed at Villa Corsini), it was eventually brought to Vezia (Lugano), where it was temporarily laid to rest in the family vault of the Morosini.

Steven W. Plattner

Plattner conducted oral history interviews with the project's key photographers—Clyde Hare, Harold Corsini, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, James P. Blair, Richard Saunders, Elliott Erwitt, Sol Libsohn, and Arnold S. Eagle—and co-authored and edited Witness to the Fifties, published in 1999 with the help of a grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment.