Enrico degli Scrovegni was a Padua

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

n nobleman who lived in the early 14th century around the time of Giotto and Dante

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. He was the son of Reginaldo degli Scrovegni

Reginaldo degli Scrovegni

Reginaldo degli Scrovegni was a Paduan nobleman of the Guelph faction who lived in the early 14th century around the time of Giotto and Dante. He is best known for being a wicked usurer, and by association with his son, Enrico degli Scrovegni, who commissioned the famous Arena Chapel by...

. He may have been a member of the Calvalieri Gaudenti.

Enrico is most famous as the patron

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 of Giotto, commissioning the great painter to paint the famous Scrovegni Chapel. Apparently, he did this to atone for the sin of usury

Usury

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. Dante placed Reginaldo degli Scrovegni

Reginaldo degli Scrovegni

Reginaldo degli Scrovegni was a Paduan nobleman of the Guelph faction who lived in the early 14th century around the time of Giotto and Dante. He is best known for being a wicked usurer, and by association with his son, Enrico degli Scrovegni, who commissioned the famous Arena Chapel by...

, his father in the Seventh Circle of Hell for his notoriously ill-gotten gains; and Enrico himself was a moneylender on a grand scale.