SIGOLI, SIMONE. - Born in Firenze in the first decades of the fourteenth century.
His coat of arms displays, on an azure field, three «ségoli» with golden handles. In 1384, together with several companions, he undertook a journey to the East lasting about a year, visiting Alessandria, Cairo, Sinai, Gaza, Ebron, Betlemme, Nazareth, Gerusalemme, the Giordano, Tiberiade, and finally Damasco. His account, entitled Viaggio al Monte Sinai (it should be compared with the Viaggio in Terra Santa of N. Frescobaldi, his fellow pilgrim, and with the Libro d'oltre mare of Niccolò da Poggibonsi, a Franciscan, who made the crossing in 1345 and remained in Palestine for four years), is an important document for knowledge of the history of the Holy Places as they appeared to fourteenth-century pilgrims, and one of the most admired texts of the «good century».