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Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence

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Square 69

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  • 1 - Ponte alle Grazie

    • Or Ponte Rubaconte, 1237. B146 Destroyed by German mines in 1944 and rebuilt in different form.

  • 2 - Flour Mills

    • The chief water powered flour mills. B132

  • 3 - S. Gregorio del Bel Morire Mon.

    • Previously church. 1600 Padri di Bel Morire [16 R 1632] B66 M/R 49 Paatz II:381 Pza Mozzi No longer exists.

  • 4 - Pal. Del Nero-Torrigiani

    • The wealthy banker Senator Francesco Del Nero (1487-1563) aquired an unfinished house earlier begun by Baccio d'Agnolo for the Nasi family in 1552 and enlarged it. There is a Medici-Toledo coat of arms on the façade. Inherited by the Torrigiani family in the 19th cent. B223 G-L 108 Pza Mozzi 5.

  • 5 - Pal. Mozzi

    • Ancient structure from the 13th century. Sold by the Mozzi in the early fifteenth century, but reaquired by them in 1551. G-L 109 Pza Mozzi.

Streets, Parishes, Notes:

"Quarter: S. Spirito, Parishes; S. Lucia dei Magnoli, S. Niccolo, Streets: Borgo S. Niccolo {p}, Piazza dei Mozzi, Renaio {p}. Square 69 had a moderate number of households, some shops, some patricians, some households with servants, some households w/o surnames and few households headed by widows."

Photo courtesy Musei Comunali Firenze.
map of square 69