The Peruzzi family were bankers of Florence, among the leading families of the city in the 14th century, before the rise to prominence of the Medici. Their modest antecedents stretched back to the mid
Castruccio Castracani degli Antelminelli was an Italian condottiero and duke of Lucca.
Castruccio Castracani with a leopard, the symbol of his house. Fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli from the Magi Chapel of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence, 1459–1461