Buildings

San Benedetto fuori della Porta a Pinti

Database ID 156

Location

Dates

1400 a
foundation
1402 b
construction
1529 c
destruction

Spaces (3 total)

Memorials (1 total)

Memorialized Groups (1)

1 Family (click to expand)

Sources (1 total)

G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine vol. 8 (1759), pp. 271-277

Notes

  • [a] Seven monks and four lay-brothers from the Camaldolese convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli established a new convent just outside the city walls at the Pinti Gate (Porta a Pinti). Funds to establish a new monastery came from the testament of Francesco di Jacopo Ricci, whose brother don Alessandro was one of the church founders.
  • [b] The church was ready for new chapels and decoration by 1402.
  • [c] The monastery was deliberately destroyed in advance of the Siege of Florence, along with several other extra-mural churches, as a defensive measure. The planned demolition allowed works of art to be saved and removed to the mother Camaldolese house of Santa Maria degli Angeli.