Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

Her early pious activities in Siena attracted a group of followers, both women and men, while they also brought her to the attention of the Dominican Order, which called her to Florence in 1374 to interrogate her for possible heresy.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

Working with two Irish brothers with theatrical experience, William and Frank Fay, Yeats's unpaid yet independently wealthy secretary Annie Horniman, and the leading West End actress Florence Farr, the group established the Irish National Theatre Society.

* May 16 – In Florence, the Piagnon, a group devoted to the memory of Girolamo Savonarola, drive out the Medici for a second time, re-establishing the Republic of Florence until 1530.

By bringing Chrysoloras to Florence, Salutati made it possible for a select group of scholars ( including Bruni and Vergerio ) to read Aristotle and Plato in the original ancient Greek.

A lifesize group of marble Niobids, including one of Niobe sheltering one of her daughters, found in Rome in 1583 at the same time as the Wrestlers, were taken in 1775 to the Uffizi in Florence where, in a gallery devoted to them, they remain some of the most prominent surviving sculptures of Classical antiquity ( see below ).

They are also known from figurative sculpture, examples of which are to be found at the Palazzo Massimo in Rome and in the group of Niobids ( including Niobe sheltering one of her daughters ) found in Rome in 1583 along with the Wrestlers and brought to the Uffizi in Florence in 1775.

, the group is actively touring as " The 5th Dimension featuring Florence LaRue ", led by LaRue with Willie Williams, Leonard Tucker, Patrice Morris, and Floyd Smith.

The group had a hard time keeping a drummer, but found Mark Herndon at a club in Florence, South Carolina in 1978.

More recently, Florence native Patterson Hood, son of " Swamper " David Hood, has found fame in his own right as a member of the alternative rock group Drive-By Truckers.

In 2008, State Line Mob, a Southern rock duo group formed by singer and songwriters Phillip Crunk ( Florence native ) and Dana Crunk ( Rogersville native ), released their first CD, Ruckus and won two Muscle Shoals Music Awards for 2008 for ( Best New Artist ) and Best New Country Album ) of the year.

The group featuring the most popular lineup of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard appeared 15 times from December 1964 through May 1967.

His sculptures have never inspired the admiration given those of Michelangelo, specially the colossal ( 5. 05 m ) marble group of Hercules and Cacus ( completed in 1534 ) in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, and Adam and Eve in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which both stand within sight of some of Michelangelo's masterworks.

* July 29 – Motown Records releases " Reflections ," the first single by the group's new billing, " Diana Ross & The Supremes " and after firing founding member Florence Ballard ; Ballard, nevertheless, sings on the record and appears on the vinyl's cover alongside group members Ross and Wilson because the song was recorded before her dismissal.

The most distinguished of these is the bronze group of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, a work ( first suggested by Duke Cosimo I de Medici ) now in the Loggia dei Lanzi at Florence, his attempt to surpass Michelangelo's David and Donatello's Judith and Holofernes.

During the 1960s, Ballard's cousin, Florence Ballard, was a member of the Detroit girl group The Supremes.

The League for Industrial Democracy ( or LID ), from 1960-1965 known as the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ), was founded in 1905 by a group of notable socialists including Harry W. Laidler, Jack London, Norman Thomas, Upton Sinclair, Florence Kelley, and J. G.

Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman ( June 30, 1943 – February 22, 1976 ) was an American singer and a founding member of the Motown group The Supremes.

The central character of Effie White, like Florence Ballard, is criticized for being overweight, and is fired from the group.

In 1467 the Tribunale della Mercanzia, the judicial organ of the Guilds in Florence, commissioned from Verrocchio a bronze group portraying Christ and St. Thomas for the centre tabernacle, which the Tribunale had recently purchased, on the east facade of Orsanmichele to replace a statue of St Louis of Toulouse, which had been removed.

Two members of the latter group were Dr. Thomas S. Smith and Florence Nightingale.

In 1914, personal quarrels and artistic differences between the Milan group, around Marinetti, Boccioni, and Balla, and the Florence group, around Carrà, Ardengo Soffici ( 1879 – 1964 ) and Giovanni Papini ( 1881 – 1956 ), created a rift in Italian Futurism.

They were among the most radical of the lower-class groups, vegetable sellers and crockery vendors and the like, and resented the controlling power that was centred in the Arte della Lana, the textile-manufacturing establishment which guided the economic engine of Florence's prosperity, and was supported by the other major Guilds of Florence, the Arti maggiori.

The Medici relied on financial power and control of the selection process for office to establish their own dominance in Florence, although it took them until 1531 to acquire the formal title of Grand Duke and abolish all vestiges of the republic.

The leading Guelph families were banished and the government of Florence was radically restructured to ensure Ghibelline dominance.

It was on a 1913 trip to Florence that he discovered a copy of the paper Lacerba and an article by one of the founders of the futurism movement, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

He is Aldo Rostagno, son of the Guglielmo Rostagnos of Florence whom the Burkes met last year in Europe.

Miss Marple also employs young women from a nearby orphanage, whom she trains for service as general housemaids after the retirement of her long-time maid-housekeeper faithful Florence.

) The Council of Florence is an example of a council accepted as ecumenical in spite of being rejected by the East, as the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon were rejected by those whom the church considered to have thereby ceased to belong to the church.

As a 12-year old boy, he became a pupil of Cosimo Rosselli, and a fellow-pupil with Fra Bartolomeo with whom he formed such an intimate brotherly rapport that in 1494 the two started their own studio in Florence.

In his territorial aggrandizement of the Papal States, Sixtus IV's niece's son Cardinal Raffaele Riario, for whom the Palazzo della Cancelleria was constructed, was a leader in the failed " Pazzi conspiracy " of 1478 to assassinate both Lorenzo de ' Medici and his brother Giuliano and replace them in Florence with Sixtus IV's other nephew, Girolamo Riario.

He had named them Roman patricians ; the latter he had placed in charge of Florence ; the former, for whom he planned to carve out a kingdom in central Italy of Parma, Piacenza, Ferrara and Urbino, he had taken with himself to Rome and married to Filiberta of Savoy.

In 1953, Belmondo married Élodie Constantin, with whom he had three children: Patricia ( 1958 ), Florence ( 1960 ) and Paul ( 1963 ).

Bruni was the pupil of political, and cultural leader Coluccio Salutati, whom he succeeded as chancellor of Florence.

In 1790 he married the singer Maria Margarethe Marchand, with whom he travelled in an opera troupe to Leipzig, Prague, Venice, and Florence.

He was also in the service of Alessandro de Medici, first duke of Florence, for whom he made in 1535 a forty-soldi piece with a bust of the duke on one side and standing figures of the saints Cosima and Damian on the other.

He was the fourth surviving and final child of Louisa Florence Dixie and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, both of whom were born in India of English and Irish descent.

It is likely that the Fraticelli whom Simone afterwards successfully defended against the Dominicans in the civil courts at Florence ( c. 1355 ), where he was then preaching, were adherents of Clareno.

In 1825 he was elected professor of painting at the Royal Academy, succeeding Henry Fuseli, and, in order to qualify himself for his duties, visited Italy and Rome in company with William Hilton, R. A., and also Sir David Wilkie, whom they met in Florence.

The son of a goldsmith, Piero was born in Florence and apprenticed under the artist Cosimo Rosseli, from whom he derived his popular name and whom he assisted in the painting of the Sistine Chapel in 1481.

In 1868, Joseph married Harriet's cousin, Florence, and had further children, the oldest of whom, Neville, would become Prime Minister in the year of Austen's death.

Her French mother Florence – whom McCall has described as something of a " wild child " and later, specifically as " an alcoholic " – returned to Paris, and McCall saw her only when on holidays.

Rupert Evelyn Beckett by his wife Muriel Helen Florence Paget, daughter of Lord Berkeley Charles Sydney Paget, himself a younger son of the 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, whom he married in 13 December 1932, was an invalid for many years, suffering from clinical depression and anorexia nervosa, but she bore him his only child, a daughter, Fiona, in 1934.

His first wife was Jane ( Florence Winifred ) Thompson with whom he had two children:

In July 1915, Loy began to write what would be later known as " Songs to Joannes " "( originally " Love songs "), a collection of modernist, avant-garde love poetry about her disenchantment with Giovanni Papini, another founding Futurist with whom Loy had been in a romantic relationship in Florence.

Landor wandered around the country again, frequently visiting London, where he usually stayed with Lady Blessington, whom he had known at Florence.

The village has also had some notable residents, one of whom was Florence Nightingale.

Born in Florence, the son of a pharmacist and undertaker, he was taught the violin by his uncle, Antonio Veracini, with whom he often appeared in concert.

In early June 1342, partners and agents of the Buonaccorsi suddenly fled Florence, Avignon, and Naples, following bankruptcy proceedings by creditors, nearly all of whom had deposits in the Buonaccorsi bank.