2014 Event 39-year-old Former Florentine mayor Matteo Renzi has been inaugurated as Prime Minister of Italy 1914 Birthday Florentine Rost van Tonningen-Heubel, Dutch black widow/Nazi 1644 Event Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer 1527 Death Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57 1524 Event Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay 1503 Birthday Il Bronzino, Florentine painter, Eleanor de Toledo and her Son 1492 Death Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies 1472 Birthday Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter 1302 Event Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
