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Buildings

S. Romolo

Affiliations (1 total)
  • parochial
Database ID 81

Location

Alternate Names

  • Santo Romolo
  • Santo Romolo di Piazza
  • S. Romolo degli Uberti
  • S. Romolo in Piazza
  • S. Romuli

Dates

January 20th, 1060 and the year 1075 a
1349 b
destruction
1356 to 1381 c
construction
1629 d
property
1769
1786 e
destruction

Affiliated Groups (2 total)

popolo di S. Romolo
circa 1115 (date is approximate) to 1769 f
Compagnia del Sacramento di S. Romolo

Spaces (4 total)

Memorials (26 total)

Memorialized Groups (17)

16 Families (click to expand)

Memorialized Individuals (6)

Sources (5 total)

G. Fanelli, Firenze, architettura e città, atlante pp. 9-10, 23
ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta fol. 21-24v
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 641-5
G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine vol. 2, pp. 33–48
R. B. Litchfield, Online Gazetteer pp. 49, no. 11

Notes

  • [a] A church dedicated to San Romolo was built in Florence soon after the translation of the saint's relics from the old cathedral in Fiesole to the new one in 1029. The first known mention of the Florentine church is 20 January 1060.
  • [b] After losing residential buildings, a workshop, and its cemetery in the early 1340s to the expansion of the Piazza della Signoria, the church itself was torn down in 1349.
  • [c] After its demolition in 1349, the church was rebuilt on the north side of the piazza.
  • [d] The relics of San Romolo were kept at the Duomo of Fiesole, dedicated to the saint. According to the history of the church by Giuseppe Richa (2: 34), Bishop Tommaso Ximenes gave a bone from the reliquary to the prior of San Romolo, named Smeraldi, in 1629.
  • [e] A plaque on the Palazzo Bombicci notes that it stands on the site of the destroyed church of San Romolo.
  • [f] San Romolo was named as one of 36 parrocchie among the original 48 parishes established at the start of the commune. It was suppressed in 1769.