Memorials

S. Croce 111.2 tomb of Francesco Dini a

Rosselli Number	111.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	in situ
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	no additional components
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	frn
Length	2.77
Width	1.37
Documented Types	lapida
Component Parts	slab frame
Decorative Elements	human head festoon ornamental motif, often carved as decoration in classical and classically influenced architecture, consisting of fruit, foliage, and flowers hung loosely from two points; often deployed on a frieze or panel. Distinct from "swag," which refers to textiles similarly hung Alternate Names: garland Getty ID: 300167386
Material	Carrara marble type of marble quarried in the area around Carrara, Tuscany, Italy (Luna in antiquity), characterized by a fine, compact grain and varies in color from pure white to creamy white, sometimes with a bluish tinge; a favorite stone of sculptors from antiquity to the present, including Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300011576 green marble a light or dark green massive serpentinite, commonly with veinlets of calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate. It is capable of being polished and is commercially considered a marble; it is also considered to be among the highest-quality serpentinites. Alternate Names: verde antico; verd antique Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300171549
Database ID	11440

circa 1500 (date is approximate) to circa 1549 (date is approximate)

D • M • O / FRANCISCO DINO PARENTI / OPTIMO AVGVSTINVS F / ILIVS SIBI Q. ET EORVM POSTERIS

To the greatest and best God. For Francesco Dini, an excellent father, his son Agostino [set this up] for himself and for their descendants.

Dini, Agostino di Francesco di Piero di M. Giovanni di Dino
Dini, Francesco di Piero di M. Giovanni di Dino di S. Cenni

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900283190
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy)	fol. 56v
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 306, no. 111 and p. 442
ASF, Manoscritti, Carte Pucci	vol. 596, ins. 20 (Dini), fol. 17 (p. 32 o.s.)

[a] The grave plot found in the south aisle between those belonging to Antonio Salutati and Alfonso della Casa originally belonged to Niccolò di Guasparri di Niccolò Vannini. Prior to 1441, his descendants (nipoti) sold the grave to Francesco di Piero di M. Giovanni Dini, whose son Agostino installed a new slab to honor his father, who had died by 1494.

Why Agostino did not embellish the deposit next to the monks' choir where his father's first wife had been laid is unclear, but it is likely that he had commenced building a new family altar against the counter-facade and thus wanted his father's tomb to be nearby.