Badia Fiorentina

Coordinates: 43°46′13.56″N 11°15′27.78″E / 43.7704333°N 11.2577167°E / 43.7704333; 11.2577167
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Badia Fiorentina
Year consecrated
978
Location
LocationFlorence, Italy
Geographic coordinates43°46′13.56″N 11°15′27.78″E / 43.7704333°N 11.2577167°E / 43.7704333; 11.2577167
Architecture
TypeChurch

The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Monastic Communities of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante (though in reality unlikely to be his real home). He would have heard the monks singing the Mass and the Offices here in Latin Gregorian chant, as he famously recounts in his Commedia: "Florence, within her ancient walls embraced, Whence nones and terce still ring to all the town, Abode aforetime, peaceful, temperate, chaste."[1] In 1373, Boccaccio delivered his famous lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy in the subsidiary chapel of Santo Stefano, just next to the north entrance of the Badia's church.

History

The abbey was founded as a

campanile, completed between 1310 and 1330, is Romanesque at its base and Gothic in its upper stages. Its construction was overseen by the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani
.

Today the Badia is the home to a congregation of monks and nuns known as the Fraternità di Gerusalemme.[2] They have sung vespers at 6pm and mass at 6:30pm every day. Locals and tourists alike claim attending their Vespers or Mass to be one of the most beautiful experiences in Florence.

The legend tells that Dante saw for the first time Beatrice in this church.

Artworks

Ex libris from the library of Badia Fiorentina

Major works of art in the church include the Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard (c. 1486) by Filippino Lippi (originally commissioned by Piero del Pugliese for his chapel at Chiesa di Santa Maria del Santo Sepolcro or delle Campora) and the tombs of Willa's son Hugh, Margrave of Tuscany (died 1001) and the lawyer and diplomat Bernardo Giugni (1396–1456), both by Mino da Fiesole (latter completed c. 1466). The murals in the apse were completed by Giovanni Domenico Ferretti in 1734.

The attached Chiostro degli Aranci (Cloister of the Oranges) contains a fresco cycle (c. 1435–1439) on the life of

Zanobi di Benedetto Strozzi (1412–68) under the guidance of Angelico himself.[4][5] The fourth scene in the cycle was repainted c. 1526-1528 (St. Benedict chastising himself) by the young Bronzino. The cloister itself was built under the direction of Antonio di Domenico della Parte and Giovanni d'Antonio da Maiano,[6] with some assistance by Bernardo Rossellino.[7][8]

The

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple and Joachim Among the Shepherds. However, all but one head depicted in the frescoes, that of a shepherd, had been removed in the 1628 renovation.[9]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-14-044105-5
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  2. ^ "Fraternités de Jérusalem".
  3. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze), is in the process of being published (2014) by the Portuguese Studies Review (http://www.trentu.ca/admin/publications/psr/21_1.html). The first part of the catalogue is now available for preview and download at: Elbl, Martin Malcolm (2013). ""The Private Archive (Carteggio) of Abbot Gomes Eanes (Badia di Firenze): An Analytical Catalogue, with Commentary, of Codex Ashburnham 1792 (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence) -- Part One""
    . Portuguese Studies Review. 21 (1): 19–152. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  4. ISBN 978-0-300-11140-8
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  5. ^ Leader, Anne (2007). "Reassessing the murals in the Chiostro degli Aranci". Burlington Magazine. 149 (July): 460–70.
  6. ^ Leader, Anne (2005). "Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia". JSAH. 64 (June): 204–33.
  7. ISBN 978-88-7743-147-9
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  8. ^ Borsook, Eve (1991). The Companion Guide to Florence (5th ed.). New York: HarperCollins. pp. 90–92.
  9. ^
    ISBN 0-900658-15-0
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