Buildings

S. Maria degli Angeli

Affiliations (1 total)	Camaldolese
Database ID	88

Parish of S. Michele Visdomini, Gonfalone Vaio, Sestiere S. Piero Maggiore	1295 to August 10th, 1343 a
Parish of S. Michele Visdomini, Gonfalone Vaio, Quartiere S. Giovanni	August 11th, 1343 to 1785

monaci di S. Maria degli Angeli		1295 to 1808
conversi a S. Maria degli Angeli		circa 1300 (date is approximate) to 1808

F. del Migliore, Firenze città nobilissima	pp. 324-341
G. Farulli, Istoria cronologica
G. Tigler, “Lo sviluppo architettonico del complesso"
ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 1319-1326
G. R. Bent, Monastic Art
G.R. Bent, “Santa Maria degli Angeli"
C. De Benedictis et al., Santa Maria degli Angeli
S. Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 1505-1512
C. Ricci, S. Maria degli Angeli

[a] Construction of the original monastery began the year after its founders secured land on which to build a small church and monastic residence, which were eventually replaced with larger buildings in the fourteenth century.
[b] In the spring of 1294, monastery's founders, don Orlando and fra Guittone d'Arezzo purchased land close by the city's second set of defensive walls along what is today via degli Alfani. The foundation document between fra Guittone and the Camaldolese prior general is kept in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, Diplomatico, S. Maria degli Angioli, 7 settembre 1293. See Cécile Caby in De Benedictis et al., p. 19.
[c] The first monastery for the Camaldolese community in Florence was constructed fairly rapidly in the late thirteenth century.
[d] According to George R. Bent, the monastery undertook several major construction programs, including the rebuilding of the chapter house, the rebuilding of the sacristy chapel, the almost complete renovation of the church, and the commissioning of a new high altarpiece in the third quarter of the fourteenth century.
[e] For more on the deconsecration of the church in July 1868 and the conversion of the church into a library, see Belli and Ricci in De Benedictis et al., p. 440.