Word: strozzi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along with hundreds of thousands of volumes in the archives, among them the only complete collection of 19th-century Italian newspapers, were damaged or destroyed. At the Gabinetto Vieussiecux (the library of Italian culture and history), archives, furniture and books, as well as the ground floor of the Palazzo Strozzi, received extensive damage...
...cardinal once took into the Vatican conclave from which he emerged, basket on arm, as Pope Clement XII. The Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing the arms of Roberto Strozzi and Maddalena de Medici marked one of the great weddings of the 16th century. A delicately inlaid table had been the gift of Clement VII to his Governor of Bologna, Francesco Guicciardini...