Volterra Toscana Italy

…Volterra (ancient Volaterrae) in their northern limits and at the same time begun to push southward into …

The Florentines recover the strongholds they had lost, apart from Volterra, which rebels against the new settlement.

The troops sent to reduce that city, under Niccolò Fortebraccio, …

Andrea Sansovino executes a marble font for the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Volterra, with good reliefs of the Four Virtues and the Baptism of Christ, in a conservative style evocative of the fourteenth century, in 1502.

Sixteen-year-old Jacopo Tatti begins his training this year in Florence under Sansovino, whose surname he will eventually assume.