Buildings

S. Piero Gattolini a

This church was just inside of the city gate that shared its name, the southernmost opening in the city's 12th-century walls. It also gave its name to the street, or Borgo, that ran alongside it (now known as the via Romana, leading to the Porta Romana built as part of the 14th century walls). The old church was destroyed in the later sixteenth century and Rosselli was unable to describe any of its original memorials.

Affiliations (2 total)
  • parochial
Database ID 5

Location

Alternate Names

  • chiesa di ser Umido
  • chiesa di Serumido
  • San Pier Gattolino
  • San Pietro Gattuario
  • S. Piero in Gattolino

Dates

1050
1304 b
1550s c
destruction

Affiliated Groups (2 total)

popolo di S. Piero Gattolini
circa 1280s (date is approximate) to circa 1550s (date is approximate)
Canonici Regolari di S. Salvatore
1530 to 1547 d

Spaces (1 total)

Memorials (2 total)

Memorialized Groups (2)

2 Families (click to expand)

Sources (2 total)

V. Orgera, Dalle compagnie del popolo al moderno comune pp. 20 and 22, no. 8
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 141-142

Notes

  • [a] Much of this information comes from Enrico Mercani, La chiesa di S. Pier Gattolini a Firenze nel Cinquecento. Quaderni di Maniera. Florence: Maniera, 2017.
  • [b] In Provvisione 211, anno 1304, S. Pier Gattolino is named as one of two parishes in the Ferza gonfalone, where it remained when the city was reorganized into quarters in 1343. The church was not one of the initial 48 parishes established in 1115.
  • [c] A new church was built in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but it was not described by Rosselli.
  • [d] S. Piero Gattolini was given to the Canons Regular of S. Salvatore, also known as the Scopetini after their church at San Donato a Scopeto, which had been destroyed in the Siege of Florence and resulted in the group's move into the city.