Zanobi is a masculine Italian given name.

Origins

From the name

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''Zenobios'', derived from ''Zeus'' (the God

Zeus Zeus or , , ; grc, Δῐός, ''Diós'', label= genitive Boeotian Aeolic and Laconian grc-dor, Δεύς, Deús ; grc, Δέος, ''Déos'', label= genitive el, Δίας, ''Días'' () is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek relig ...

) and ''bios'' (life), the name can be translated as ''he who takes life from Zeus''. The name is an evolution of Zenobio, which seems to have disappeared in Italy. The name Zanobi is still very popular in

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, in particular in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...

, because of Saint

Zenobius of Florence Saint Zenobius ( it, San Zanobi, Zenobio) (337–417) is venerated as the first bishop of Florence. His feast day is celebrated on May 25. Life Born of a Florentine noble family, Zenobius was educated by his pagan parents. He came under the ...

( it, San Zanobi), who is venerated as the first Bishop of Florence. His feast day is celebrated on May 25.

People

*San Zanobi (Saint

) (337–417), first bishop of Florence. * Zanobi da Strada (1300), a writer, translator and correspondent of

Petrarch Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited ...

. * Zanobi Strozzi (1400), an assistant and pupil of

Fra Angelico Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; February 18, 1455) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his '' Lives of the Artists'' as having "a rare and perfect talent".Giorgio Vasari, ''Lives of the Artists''. Pengu ...

. * Zanobi Machiavelli (1418–1479), a painter and illuminator. * Zanobi Acciaiuoli (1461–1519), a Dominican friar, writer and translator. * Zanobi Buondelmonti (fl. 1500), an important Florentine political figure quoted by

Niccolò Machiavelli Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( , , ; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527), occasionally rendered in English as Nicholas Machiavel ( , ; see below), was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. ...

, and to whom Machiavelli dedicated his ''

Discourses on Livy The ''Discourses on Livy'' ( it, Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, ) is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (c. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, best known a ...

''. * Zanobi Poggino (1500), a portrait painter and pupil of

Giovanni Antonio Sogliani Giovanni Antonio Sogliani (1492 – 17 July 1544) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Florence. Life and Work Giorgio Vasari in his '' Vite'', the main source for Sogliani's biography, claimed that the painter had ...

. *

Zanobi del Rosso Zanobi del Rosso (1724–1798) was an Italian architect. He designed the ''Kaffeehaus'' in the Boboli Gardens The Boboli Gardens ( it, Giardino di Boboli) is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Origi ...

(1700), an architect and pupil of Giovanni Filippo Ciocchi.

Variations

*Masculine: Zenobi, Zenobio *Feminine:

Zenobia Septimia Zenobia ( Palmyrene Aramaic: , , vocalized as ; AD 240 – c. 274) was a third-century queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Syria. Many legends surround her ancestry; she was probably not a commoner and she married the ruler of the cit ...

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