Arrigucci

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The name Arrigucci appears in the sixteenth canto of the Paradiso, spoken by Cacciaguida, who recalls the Florentine families of the time of his forebears. The notes to the passage gloss the verse of a forma usuale a le curule, understood as the seats of government and the offices of the Commune of Florence, evoking the curule chairs of the magistrates of the Roman republic. The overall note to the passage further describes the Arrigucci as a Guelph family, recalled alongside the Sizii, and indicates their parallel mention in the Cronica of Giovanni Villani. In Cacciaguida's recollection, as he passes through the ranks of his ancient fellow citizens in the Heaven of Mars, the pair Sizii and Arrigucci is presented as an example of houses once prominent and later extinct, grouped with the other lineages listed in the same passage.