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and the Pucci properties were seized, and the most dangerous part of the family been exiled to Sicily where the surname changed into Puccio. As a memorial to the quashing of the plot, or perhaps out of prudence or superstition, it was decided to brick up the window at the corner where the attack was
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called upon as a means of indirectly pursuing his own political interests. Trusted Medici allies from the Pucci family included Puccio Pucci, who provided Cosimo with money to improve his living conditions in prison whilst Cosimo was imprisoned prior to being exiled. In the early 16th century, the
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The family surname derives from an ancestor named Jacopo, informally
Jacopuccio, abbreviated to Puccio, who was considered wise and frequently called upon to settle disputes – there are records of two such interventions in 1264 and 1287. Their former surname seems to have been
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The Pucci emblem on the floor of
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outside (the Pucci device is to be seen on the pavement in front of the entrance and on both sides of the portico) - an inscription on the frieze and a plaque on Via Gino
Capponi gives its completion date as 1601.
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in 1445 showed interest acquiring the main chapel of the still-to-be constructed tribune of the SS. Annunziata (the later site of the
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then spread across Europe. It also depicts the actual tableware and silver vessels used by the family, which were allegedly from the workshops of
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Giannozzo Pucci (15th century), whose marriage to
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at Cosimo as he and his retinue walked along the corner of
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in 1260. However, they were soon able to return upon the
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