What is "guidi"

Guidi is an Italian surname shared by several notable people:

• Domenico Guidi (1625–1701), Italian sculptor
• Carlo Alessandro Guidi (1650–1712), Italian lyric poet
• Ignazio Guidi (1844–1935), Italian orientalist
• Guido Buffarini Guidi (1895–1945), Italian politician active during the Second World War
• Juan Héctor Guidi (1930–1973), Argentine footballer
• Peter Guidi (born 1949), American jazz musician
• Fabrizio Guidi (born 1972), Italian cyclist
• Guido Guidi ( fl. 20th century), Italian comic book artist and penciller
• Emanuele Guidi (born 1969), Sammarinese archer

The Guidi were a Tuscan aristocratic family of the Middle Ages. Descended from a certain Tegrimo (flourished 10th century), the Guidi practised partible inheritance and in the thirteenth century began to split into separate cadet lineages.