The Salviati family was an important Italian noble family in the Republic of Florence.Rendina, Claudio. Le grandi famiglie di Roma: la saga della nobiltà tra contee, marchesati, ducati e principati, sotto l'insegna di papi e cardinali, imperatori e re nello scenario di splendidi palazzi, sontuose ville e cappelle gentilizie. Newton Compton editori, 2004: p. 546
History Some sources trace the origins of the family to a Gottifredo who lived in Florence in the twelfth century. The first documented member of the family is Cambio di Salvi, who in 1335 was among both the gonfalonieri and the . In all, twenty members were gonfaloniere and sixty-two occupied the position of priore.
Members Francesco Salviati, archbishop of Pisa, hanged from the walls of the Palazzo della Signoria in 1478 for his part in the Pazzi Conspiracy Giorgio Benigno Salviati (died 1520), Bosnian-born adopted member of the family, theologian and archbishop Jacopo Salviati (1461–1533), married Lucrezia de' Medici Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553), cardinal Maria Salviati (1499–1543), daughter of Lucrezia di Medici and Jacopo Salviati, married Giovanni delle Bande Nere, mother of Cosimo I de Medici. Bernardo Salviati (1508–1568), condottiere, general of the galleys of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and cardinal Cassandre Salviati, daughter of Bernardo Salviati, dedicatee of the Amours de Cassandre of Pierre de Ronsard Diane Salviati, niece of Cassandre, dedicatee of the L’hécatombe à Diane of Agrippa d'Aubigné Antonio Maria Salviati (1537–1602), appointed cardinal in 1583 Alamanno Salviati, cardinal from 1727 until his death in 1733 Gregorio Salviati, cardinal from 1777, died 1794 Pietro Salviati, III Duke of Salviati (1887–1972), who in 1914 married in Palazzo Zilleri Maria Antoinetta Zilleri dal Verme, daughter of count Henri Zilleri dal Verme degli Obbizzi.
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The Spring – The Hecatomb for Diane, VI | Le Printemps – L’hécatombe à Diane, VI. Global Medieval Sourcebook. Stanford University. Accessed September 2022.
Roberto Palmarocchi (1936). Salviati (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed October 2015.