In the same period Seymour Kirkup, the historian who financed works in the chapel of Mary Magdalene, was the owner of Dante's mask now preserved inside Palazzo Vecchio.
Santa reparata was destroyed only at the end of the XIV century when works for the edification of the new one were going on.
From 1282 priors were representatives of the seven Major guilds: they fighted against the old aristocratic families revenging an active role of trade in Florence.
The artist drew even his self-portrait depicting the attitude of an imprisoned man.