Jacopo Inghirami

Jacopo (or Iacopo) Inghirami (July 1565 – 3 January 1624) was admiral of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and marquis of Montevitozzo.

Career Born to an influential family in Volterra in July 1565, Jacopo was orphaned as a teenager. He was educated at the Palazzo della Carovana in Pisa Following this action, he was appointed admiral of the fleet in 1603 by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He followed by raiding in Anatolia in 1612 and 1613.

As admiral, Inghirami also liaised with the Catholic allies of the Grand Duchy in the Mediterranean (including representatives of the fleets of France and later Spain), and also with the Medici family's North African allies (including emir Fakhr-al-Din II, whom Inghirmani carried to Messina, where he was received by Viceroy Pedro Téllez-Girón, Duke of Osuna, during the emir's exile from Lebanon).

In May 1616, Inghirami sailed with five galleys until Negroponte, where he captured the flagship of Mytilene and a ship carrying rich tribute from Alexandria. Upon his return, he defeated Amurat Reis and his six Algerian galleys again near Castelrosso. The same year, Cosimo II de' Medici awarded Inghirami the title of Marquis, and later appointed him Governor of Livorno. Inghirami also commissioned a villa by Silvani on Inghirami lands outside Volterra at Ulignano.

One of Inghirami's larger commissions was the Inghirami family chapel in the Duomo (cathedral) of Volterra. This chapel (dedicated to Saint Paul) was designed by Alessandro Pieroni and includes frescos by Giovanni da San Giovanni.

Giambologna and Pietro Tacca's equestrian statue of Ferdinando I de' Medici (in the Piazza Santissima Annunziata in Florence) is made from the recast bronze of cannon captured by Inghirami's galleons.