San Remigio, also known as San Romeo, was established as a 'spedale' to accommodate pilgrims on their way to Rome. In addition to lodging, San Remigio was equipped with an oratory to attend to the pilgrims' spiritual needs.
A three-aisled Romanesque church was extant at the turn of the eleventh century, which was rebuilt in the Gothic style in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Decoration, including narrative wall frescoes, furnishings, and tombs continued into the early fifteenth century.
The church was dramatically altered after 1568 in response to the Counter Reformation and again in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The most recent renovations removed much of the baroque and neoclassical installations to the church in an attempt to return the interior to its medieval character.
Most of the tombs are lost, though some markers remain in the church (including medieval monuments covered over in later modernizations), while others have been moved to the San Remigio cloister. Whether other markers have been moved to storage at San Marco or sold on the art market remains to be discovered.
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| Database ID | 78 |
| monache di S. Pier Maggiore | circa 1066 (date is approximate) to 1267 |
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| popolo di S. Remigio | after 1115 |
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| Bagnesi | 1267 to 1428 |
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| popolo di S. Remigio | 1428 to circa 1810 (date is approximate) |
| CEI, Chiese delle Diocesi italiane e | Chiesa di San Remigio <Firenze> |
| W. Paatz and E. Paatz, Die Kirchen von Florenz f | vol. 5, pp. 5-18 |
| G. Fanelli, Firenze, architettura e città , atlante | pp. 9-10 |
| ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) | pp. 560-570 |
| G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine | vol. 1, pp. 254-260 |
| R. B. Litchfield, Online Gazetteer | sq. 50, no. 1 |
