FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE RESOURCES:
Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence

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Square 6

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  • 1 - Pieta delle Abbandonate Con.

    • ca. 1554 Dominican nuns. Orphanage for Girls. [125 I 1632] B206 M/R 84 Paatz IV: 681. V. del Mandorlo No longer exists.

Streets, Parishes, Notes:

"Quarters: S. Giovanni, Parish: S. Michele Visdomini, Streets: V del Mandorlo (V G. Giusti {p}), V S. Sebastiano (V. G. Capponi {p}). Square 6 had a moderate number of households, no shops, some patricians, few households with servants, few households w/o surnames, and some households headed by widows."

Photo courtesy Musei Comunali Firenze.
map of square 6