page_title: House of Sacchetti
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: House of Sacchetti / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Circa 1370, Italian novelist and poet, Franco Sacchetti.
context_page_description: The House of Sacchetti is an Italian noble family originating in Tuscany whose earliest documented member Merlo lived during the late 10th and early 11th centuries. The name of the family is derived from one or more members known as Sacchetto. According to Ugolino di Vieri,"nobile Sacchetti genus est, moenia primus romanus sangius".
  In the 19th century, the Sacchetti inherited the title of Prince of Palestrina and permission to use the Barberini name.
context_section_description: The 17th century author, Eugenio Gamurrini in his Istoria genealogica delle famiglie nobili toscane et umbre (1668–1685) claimed with little evidence that this family, like many others in Florence, had roots in prominent Roman families. He claimed the family derived from the "gens Cornelia", one of the most distinguished families of the Roman Republic, from who arose  in 485 BC the consul Servius Cornelius Cossus Maluginensis.  According to Gamurrini the Sacchetti descend from the Cornelii Merulae branch.
  The family was certainly well established in Florence during the 12th century. Dante Alighieri mentions the family in The Divine Comedy, Paradise Canto XVI in which Dante's Great-grandfather, Cacciaguida degli Elisei (c.1098 – c. 1148), lists the ancient families of Florence In The Inferno, Canto XXIX:1-36, Dante recounted meeting his father's first cousin, Geri del Bello. He had been condemned to the ninth chasm for his disputes with the Sacchetti, most likely Brodaio Sacchetti, consul in 1203. At the time of Dante's vision the feud had not been settled. The families were finally reconciled in 1342.
caption: The Poet Franco Sacchetti, born in Dubrovnik in Croatia the son of Benci di Uguccione Sacchetti, nicknamed "Buono", who was involved in the silver trade. Franco married three times. First to Maria Felice di Niccolò Strozzi, second to Ghita di Piero Gherardini and the third to Giovanna di Francesco di Santi Bruni[4]
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