N. 11. - Inscription and coat of arms commemorating FILIPPO ARGENTI at the house N. 14 Corso. Up to the XIIᵗʰ century this house belonged to the family of the CAVICCIULI, of whom the ARGENTI were a branch:
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Tutti gridavano: “A Filippo Argenti!” E’l fiorentino spirito bizarro In se medes mo si volgea coi denti. DANTE, Inferno, VIII, 61–63. “To Filippo Argenti!” cried they all: And on himself the moody Florentine Turned his avenging fangs. H. F. Cary’s translation.
Dante, when crossing the Stygian lake, wherein the gloomy and wrathful are tormented, finds Filippo Argenti, drenched in mire. Boccaccio tells us, Filippo Argenti was a man remarkable for the large proportions and extraordinary vigour of his bodily frame, and the extreme waywardness and irascibility of his temper. The coat of arms, which the commune has placed above this inscription, is that of the Consorteria dei Cavicciuli (see “Consorteria” N. 6 Visdomini).
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