Antinori

The Antinori are an ancient patrician family of Florence. In the eighteenth century they were given the title of Count of Habsburg-Lorraine Grand Dukes, while a Neapolitan branch in the fifteenth century, the Duchy of Brindisi held.

Family History

The family is originally from Val di Sieve in the Mugello north of Florence, where she owned a number of castles in the Middle Ages. A first evidence of viticulture by Rinuccio Antinori Castello di Combiate dates back to 1180th During the wars between the Guelphs and Ghibellines, there was significant damage in the area. In 1202, Castello di Combiate was destroyed and decided to Antinoris to go to Florence, where the family was wealthy in agriculture for over a hundred years. The first known of the family standing in the Via de Serragli.

In 1285 Filippo and Chiaro Antinori can be in the Handicrafts of the Arte della Seta, the silk weavers, proven. You will be transferred to the success of the Florentine silk in the markets of Central Europe in context and had, among other things in Bruges and Lyon branches. Between 1336 and 1340, the years most economically important for the city of Florence, the Antinori operated so that a company that was one of the most important in Florence. The family heads Lippo and Piero Antinori were leading the heads of the company, the strong earnings and also to escape from the tragic chain of errors that the closure of the stands of the Bardi, Peruzzi, and a chain of other companies. At the same time, the increase is also economic policy that public functions, such as before or gonfalonier to many of its components that are known for the prudent management and good political sense. With the transfer of power from the Republican to the Grand Duchy, the family still on good relations with all members of the ruling class, taking advantage of good administration that Antinori looks at some of the most active promoters. In 1385 Giovanni di Pietro Antinori joined in the wine merchants ' guild of Florence, which was founded in 1293 Corporazione dei Vinattieri.

In the fifteenth century a branch of the family moved from the line of Antonio di Giovanni Antinori to Naples. Here he gained the respect of the king and given the Duchy of Brindisi.

Meanwhile, the two brothers Antonio and Bernardo Thomas Antinori built from their political success in Florence. The grandson Bernardo, Niccolò Antinori, bought in 1506 the mansion of the Martelli family, the Palazzo Antinori today '. Built by Giuliano da Maiano Baccio d' Agnolo and building was the outward sign of the prosperity of the family and is still inhabited by Antinori.

During the reign of the House of Habsburg- Lorraine, in the second half of the eighteenth century, the Antinori won the title of " Marquis ", which meant their inclusion in the small number of families of Florence and a further increase in importance in the political life of Florence ' meant.

Today, the interests of the family, which belongs to the group of Primum Familiae Vini, achieved mainly on the production of wine, the highest international level limit. In the family businesses Piero Antinori and his daughters Alessia, Albiera and Allegra.

Personalities of the house Antinori

• Ludovico Antinori, Archbishop of Pisa, was Pope Pius IV selected by Cardinal Giovanni Morone, to support the President of the Council of Trent, and then to disseminate the results of the council in France at the court of Catherine de 'Medici
• Antonio Antinori was treasurer of Vittoria della Rovere and later her son, Grand Duke Cosimo III. de ' Medici at the end of the seventeenth century
• Vincenzo Antinori was a scientist and mathematician, director of the Museum of the observatory during the nineteenth century, and later at the Museum of Physics and Natural History