It was in Montelupo that she met the model for "Marshal Guarnaccia".
Some of Montelupo’s potteries are the finest examples of Renaissance majolica “istoriata” (stained) that makes a fine show in the most important museums in the world (Musée de Cluny, and Victoria and Albert Museum, to name a few), although often with labels and captions not exactly correct.
Rosso Fiorentino | Fiorentino | Sesto Fiorentino | Sergio Fiorentino | Montelupo Fiorentino | Tony Fiorentino | Raffaello da Montelupo | Linda Fiorentino | Calcio Fiorentino | Rosso Fiorentino's | Montelupo Albese | Melissa Fiorentino | Castiglion Fiorentino | ''Battle between Hercules and Centaurs'', engraving from the ''The Labours of Hercules'' after Rosso Fiorentino |
Born into a family of modest social conditions in Montelupo Fiorentino, he moved at eighteen to Florence and pursued the study of sculpture, attending the "scuola" of Bertoldo di Giovanni, founded in the gardens of Lorenzo de' Medici and attended by other young sculptors including Michelangelo, Giovanni Francesco Rustici, and Jacopo Sansovino.
Inaugurated on September 12, 1965 the ground was dedicated to Carlo Castellani, former football player born in nearby Montelupo Fiorentino, who died prematurely after being deported to the concentration camp of Mauthausen.