_Albizzi_, Benincasa, Elder in 1251, 17; Compagno, Prior in 1282, 17; Luca, adherent of the Medici, 20; Maso, founds the greatness of Florence, 17–18; Piero, is beheaded, 17; Rinaldo, rival of Cosimo de’ Medici, 18; his interview with Eugenius IV., 19–20, 74. _Alessandri_, originally Albizzi, 20; favourite barb of the, 21. Alfieri, Count, 101; house of, 109. Alighieri, Dante, 95; exile of, 96, 107, 144; portrait of, in Palazzo del Podestà (Bargello), 214–215, 233; a Prior, 96; quoted, 56, 155, 176, 219. _Altafronte_, Castello d’, ruined by a flood of the Arno, 22; residence of the Judges of the Ruota, 23. _Altoviti_, Altovito, a judge, knighted by the Emperor Frederick II., 28; Antonio, banker of Innocent VIII., 30; Antonio, Archbishop of Florence, mystic marriage of, with the Abbess of S. Piero Maggiore, 30–31; Bindo, leader of the revolt against the Duke of Athens, cruelty of, 29; Bindo, friend of Michelangelo, Raphael, etc., 30; Davanzato, challenged by the Prior of S.S. Apostoli, 28; Giovan Battista, inherits name and fortune of the Avila, 31; Guinizzingo, Gonfalonier of Justice when the first stone of Sta. Maria Novella was laid, 28; Oddo, assists in framing the _Ordinamenti di Giustizia_, 29. Ammannati, Bartolommeo, architect of Palazzo Giugni, 115; of Palazzo Griffoni, 122–123; probably of Palazzo Montalvo, 149; adds to Palazzo Pitti, 187–188; architect of the Palazzo Vitali, 396. Amidei, Lambertuccio, daughter of, jilted by Buondelmonti, 55. Amieri, Ginevra degl’, love story of, 273. _Antinori_, Niccolò, purchases the Boni Palace, 36. Arnolfo di Lapo, first architect of the Palazzo del Podestà, 208; architect of the Palazzo Spini, 308. Baccio d’Agnolo (Baglioni), the Palazzo Antinori attributed to, 36; architect of the Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, 43–44; the Palazzo Cocchi attributed to, 76; 221; smaller Torrigiani palace begun by, 346; Domenico di, architect of the Palazzo Bouturlin, 53; Giuliano di, the Palazzo Griffoni attributed to, 123. Badia, Iodico Del, quoted, 60, 76, 137, 167, 329, 331, 350. Baldinucci, Filippo, 69, 128, 149, 159; entertainment in the courtyard of the Palazzo Pitti described by, 192–193; on Alfonso Parigi, 195. Bandinelli, Bacio, 110. Bandini, Bernardo, joins the Pazzi conspiracy, 76; Giovanni, betrays Florence, 76. Bardi, The, settle in Florence, 39; fall of the, described by G. Villani, 40–42; created Imperial Vicarii of Vernio, 42; Giovanni founds the society to reform recitative, 42. Bartolini Salimbeni, Giovanni, building of the palace by, 43; Vasari’s description of the palace, 43–44; origin of the frieze on the palace, 44. Bartolommei, Anton Maria, buys the old Lamberteschi palace, 47; origin of the Bartolommei, 47–48.