Ravignani

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The Ravignani are cited by Cacciaguida in the sixteenth heaven of the Paradiso, among the ancient Florentine lineages whose greatness has now faded. The notes to the canto specify that the family was very great and lived near Porta San Piero; subsequently their houses passed to the Conti Guidi and then to the Cerchi, instigators of civil strife. From a daughter of the Ravignani, Bellincione Berti, were born the Conti Guidi, among them Guido Guerra; other daughters transmitted the name into the Donati, the Adimari, and the Alighieri themselves, and one of them married Alighiero I, son of Cacciaguida. The memory of the Ravignani thus survives as the ancestral house of important families in Dante's Florence.