FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE RESOURCES:
Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence

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Square 19

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  • 1 - Tiratoio della Pergola

    • Wool cloth drying and stretching house. Site of Teatro della Pergola, first built 1652. B191 V. della Pergola.

  • 2 - S. Maria di Candeli Con.

    • ca. 1258 Augustinian nuns; damaged by flood of 1557 and repaired; new church 1626 renovated by G. B. Foggini 1703. [78 R 1551; 92 1632] B38 M/R 63 Paatz III:178 V. Pilastri.

Streets, Parishes, Notes:

"Quarter: S. Giovanni, Parish: S. Piero Maggiore, Streets: Borgo Pinti {p}, Canto alla Catena, Canto di Monteloro, V Cafaggiolo (V degli Alfani {p}), V. dei Pilasrti {p}, V della Pergola {p}, V Fiesolana, V Nuova. Square 19 had many households, some shops, some patricians, some households with servants, many households w/o surnames and many widows. Dyers were likely here."

Photo courtesy Musei Comunali Firenze.
map of square 19