Lapo Mazzei
Lapo Mazzei
fl. c. 1395
Italian lawyer and ancestor of physician and merchant Philip Mazzei (1730-1816). Lapo served as attorney for Santa Maria Nuova, a hospital in Florence established by the father of Beatrice Portinari, the heroine of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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