Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti
✓ Source-basedstableFlorentine knight
PoliticiansLived 1250 to 1280 · aged 30
Fame46.8
Momentum2.8
Languages7
In century#1,490
Schicchi was a medieval knight of Florence in the thirteenth century. His life, including his crime of fraud by being a talented imposter, is detailed by Dante in the Inferno, which inspired a Puccini opera and a later play.
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![Detail of Dante and Virgil by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1850); Schicchi, with red hair, portrayed biting into Capocchio [it]'s neck](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/William_bouguereau%2C_dante_e_virgilio%2C_1850%2C_04.JPG/1280px-William_bouguereau%2C_dante_e_virgilio%2C_1850%2C_04.JPG)
Politicians born in the 1250s 6
About this person
Schicchi was a medieval knight of Florence in the thirteenth century. His life, including his crime of fraud by being a talented imposter, is detailed by Dante in the Inferno, which inspired a Puccini opera and a later play. Dante's depiction of Schicchi's eternal punishment with insanity in hell inspired a painting by Bouguereau.
Category
Politicians
Type
Public Official
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1250 to 1280 · aged 30
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7 languages
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