Ginevra de' Benci (aristocrat)
Ginevra de' Benci was a member of the Benci family in Florence and is the subject of an early portrait by Leonardo da Vinci
Ginevra was born into a family of wealthy Florentine merchants in 1457. The Benci had business dealings with the Medici and were noted humanists themselves, patronizing artists and writers and creating an important library of classical texts. In 1474 she married Luigi de Bernardo Niccolini. Bernardo Bembo, Lorenzo de' Medici, Alessandro Braccesi, and Christoforo Landino dedicated poems to her.
