Giordano Orsini (senator)
Giordano Orsini was a
Francesco Petrarca on the Capitoline Hill.[1][2] During the revolutionary attempt of Cola di Rienzo, he favoured the tribune, unlike the rest of the Roman nobility.[1] Chief of the Montegiordano line of the family, he possibly gave the name to this Roman hill.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c Pietrangeli (1981), p. 32
- ISBN 9780226437439.
Sources
- Pietrangeli, Carlo (1981). Guide rionali di Roma (in Italian). Vol. Ponte (II). Roma: Fratelli Palombi Editori. ISSN 0393-2710.
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