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Buildings

S. Lorenzo

Affiliations (2 total)
  • parochial
Database ID 36

Location

Alternate Names

  • Basilica Ambrosiana
  • Basilica e insigne Collegiata di S. Lorenzo
  • Basilica of San Lorenzo
  • Insigne Collegiata e Secolare Chiesa di S. Lorenzo
  • monticulus Sancti Laurentii
  • Reale e insigne Basilica di S. Lorenzo
  • S. Laurentii

Dates

year 393 a
foundation
January 20th, 1060 b
August 10th, 1421 to 1461 c
renovation
1461 d

Affiliated Groups (2 total)

canons of S. Lorenzo
from January 20th, 1060
popolo di S. Lorenzo
from 1115 e

Spaces (27 total)

Memorials (111 total)

Memorialized Groups (46)

46 Families (click to expand)

Memorialized Individuals (23)

Sources (4 total)

V. Orgera, Dalle compagnie del popolo al moderno comune pp. 22, no. 34; 27, no. 40; 48, no. 30
G. Fanelli, Firenze, architettura e città, atlante pp. 9, no. 1; 10, E
ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 1179-1216
R. B. Litchfield, Online Gazetteer sq. 26, no. 2

Notes

  • [a] consecrated in presence of Saints Ambrose and Zenobius as city's cathedral with dedication to martyr St. Lawrence
  • [b] Culmination of initiative by bishop Gherardo di Borgogna to enlarge the church, endow it with canons, and reconsecrate it in 1060.
  • [c] Work on the new church commenced under Filippo Brunelleschi, continued by Michelozzo and then Antonio Manetti Ciaccheri
  • [d] Works on new church completed enough under Ciaccheri for main altar to be consecrated.
  • [e] Because of its antiquity and importance, San Lorenzo was named as one of 12 priories among the original 48 parishes established at the start of the commune.