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<p>The Peruzzi family were bankers of <a href="/facts/Florence/Mx0uhNma">Florence</a>, among the leading families of the city in the 14th century, before the rise to prominence of the <a href="/facts/Medici/HjG9REhl">Medici</a>. Their modest antecedents stretched back to the mid 11th century, according to the family's genealogist Luigi Passerini, but a restructuring of the Peruzzi company in the 1340's, with an infusion of outside capital, marked the start of a quarter-century of prosperity that brought the family consortium to the forefront of Florentine affairs. </p>