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Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence

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Square 76

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  • 1 - S. Spirito Mon.
  • 1292 Augustinian monks. Church rebuilt by Brunelleschi and others from 1444. New cloister by Ammannati 1564-69, new choir by Caccini 1599-1608. [57 R 1551, 48 1632] B178 M/R 90 Paatz V:117 Pza S. Spirito.

  • 2 - S. Spirito Fountain
  • Appeared 1563 fed by waters from the Boboli Gardens. B202 Pza S Spirito.

  • 3 - Pal. Michelozzi
  • Built by Caccini? for Senator Giovan Battists Michelozzi (1523-1604), a figure at the court of Ferdinando I, over houses of the Corbinelli family. He also commissioned the new high altar in S. Spirito built by Caccini 1599-1608. G-L 114 V. Maggio 11.

  • 4 - Pal. Bianca Cappello
  • Bought by Venetian Bianca Cappello's husband Piero Buonaventura from the Corbinelli, 1567. She became the lover of Francesco I and later married him; the palace was renovated for her by Bernardo Buontalenti with kneeling windows and sgraffiti on the façade. It was bought by Giovanni Riccardi in 1586. G-L 117 V. Maggio 26.

  • 5 - Pal. Ridolfi-Zanchini
  • Built over houses of the Corbinelli family by Santi di Tito for Senator Giovan Battista Zanchini (d. 1590), who also founded commende in the Order of S. Stephen. Bought by the Ridolfi in the 19th century. G-L 115 V. Maggio 13.

  • 6 - Pal. Cosimo Ridolfi
  • Built by the Corbinelli and bought by the Ridolfi in 1483. Confiscated in the period of the Consiglio Maggiore, but restored to the Ridolfi after the Medici restoration of 1512. G-L 116 V. Maggio 15.

Streets, Parishes, Notes:

"Quarter: S. Spirito, Parishes: S. Felice in Piazza, S. Jacopo sopra Arno, Streets: Piazza S. Spirito {p}, Sdruccio de Pitti {p}, V dei Velluti, V del Gelsumino (Borgo Tegolaio {p}), V Maggio {p}. Square 76 had a moderate number of households, some shops, many patricians, many households with servants, few households w/o surnames and some households headed by widows."

Photo courtesy Musei Comunali Firenze.
map of square 76