The Valori family belonged to
Florence during a period of the
Italian Renaissance, they were prominent in Florentine politics for five generations.[1][2]
Was born on the 31st of August 1436, Filippo was on friendly terms with
Lorenzo di Medici, and funded Ficino's translation of Plato after the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478. A correspondence written prior to June the 2nd 1484, shows Ficino reports Filippo is having the corpus of Plato published at his own expense.[6][7][8][9]
He was born in 1438 and studied in the Platonic academy of Florence. He married to a lady of the Canigiani family.[12] He served as ambassador for Florence, and was four time Gonfalonieri di Guistizia. Initially a supporter of the Medici, but upon the death of
Lorenzo il Magnifico in 1492, despite his oligarchic aristocratic leanings, he drew closer the partisans of
Savonarola. This brought him into conflict with the partisans of the Medici, and as part of the Republican government Francesco pronounced death sentences on some prominent aristocrats linked to an unsuccessful plot to return
Piero de' Medici to power,[13] including Lorenzo Tornabuoni, Bernardo del Nero, G. Pucci, G. Cambi, and Niccolo Ridolfi. He had extracted some of this evidence through torture of Lamberto Dell'Antélla. These acts gained him enmity and with the fall of the Savonarola rule in April 1498, he was arrested, but murdered near the San Procolo chapel on route to his jailing at the Signoria by Vincenzio Ridolfi.[12]
^Oxford dictionaries -
corpus [Retrieved 2015-3-21](ed. knows prior of this word via mention somewhere of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford possibly,but first source is not known)