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Memorials

Badia 001 tomb of Ugo di Toscana 1481

Situated In

Badia Fiorentina -- chiesa di Arnolfo -- Rosselli 1
Rosselli Number 1.0
Memorial Type
Status extant
Current Repository moved
Primary Installation floor
Secondary Installation frn
Tomb Form wall tomb
Liturgical Orientation N
Documented Types
  • cartella
Component Parts
  • coffin
  • sculpture in the round
  • relief sculpture
  • arch
  • plaque
Decorative Elements
  • effigy
  • Virgin Mary
Material
  • marble
Database ID 10237

Dates

1481

Inscriptions (2 total)

148 OBIIT AÑO SALVTIS MILLESIMO Po XIIo KAL IANVARIAS He died in the year of salvation 1001 on the twelfth day before the kalends of January [i.e. December 21, 1001]
147 VGONI OTHONIS III IMPER AFFINI AC /
COMITI MARCHIONI ANDEBVRGENSI /
HÆRVRIAEQ PRAEFECTO Q DIVO BENEDICTO /
HOC OLĨ ET SEX ALIA COENOBIA CŌDIDIT /
PII HVIVS LOCI MONACHI DESE BENEMERITO /
SEPVLCRVM VETVSTATE ATTRITVM /
ĪSTAVRAVT ĀNO SALVTIS M CCCCLXXXI /
H M H N S		 To the divine and blessed Ugo, kin of Otto III and Count and Marquis of Brandenburg and Tuscany and Commander of the State. He once founded this and six other monasteries. The dutiful monks of this place, concerning him well deserving, restored the tomb, worn with age, in the year of Salvation 1481. This monument does not follow the heir.

Individuals (1 total)

di Toscana, Ugo (marchese) (poi Buondelmonti)
1481 to present

Groups (1 total)

di Toscana

Related Memorials (1 total)

Badia 001 Cappella Maggiore a

Sources (3 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta fol. 1
Stefano Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph pp. 683
S. E. Zuraw, The Public Commemorative Monument pp. 452-477

Notes

  • [a] The tomb of count Ugo was originally set against the north wall of the high altar chapel, which oriented his effigy's feet toward the east. The wall tomb now stands were the medieval high altar stood, against the seventeenth-century eastern wall.