N. 13. - Inscription and coat of arms to commemorate the AMIDEI on the right hand side of the ancient tower in Via Por S. Maria N. 1, which once belonged to the Amidei:
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La casa, di che nacque il vostro fleto Per lo giusto disdegno che v’ha morti E posto fine al vostro viver lieto, Era onorata essa e suoi consorti. DANTE, Paradiso, XVI, 136–139. The house from which is born your lamentation Through just disdain that death among you brought And put an end unto your joyous life, Was honoured in itself and its companions. Longfellow’s translation.
Meaning the house of the Amidei, whose quarrel with the Buondelmonti was the origin of the Guelph and Ghibelline parties in Florence, and thus put an end to the joyous life of her citizens (see N. 12 Buondelmonte).