Most of those had settled in south Wales and helped forge an extraordinary connection between Bardi and Wales.

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The sovereign risk of the day was high: both the Bardi and the Peruzzi houses were felled when England's King Edward III defaulted.

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Bartolomeo's body was never found but his photograph and name can be seen in a small memorial chapel built for the Arandora Star victims in the town of Bardi in northern Italy where he was born.

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