Memorials

Ospedale degli Innocenti Alessandro Gianfigliazzi 1742 a

Situated In

Ospedale degli Innocenti -- Santa Maria degli Innocenti -- chancel

Memorial Type
Status	partial
Current Repository	moved
Primary Installation	wall
Secondary Installation	with floor component(s)
Tomb Form	wall tomb
Liturgical Orientation	N
Documented Types	monumento
Component Parts	plaque
Material
Database ID	13254

Dates

April 9th, 1742

death

Inscriptions (2 total)

1854	ALEXANDER GIANFIGLIAZIUS ECCLESIAE FLORENTINAE CANONICUS FAESULANI PONTIFICIS VICARIUS. HVIVS INSIGNIS BREPHOTROPHII MODERATOR VIGILANTISSIMUS IN PACE HEIC ADQVIESCIT. ANNORUM XXII SPATIO SVMMA CVM LAVDE PVBLICO BONO EI PRAEFUIT. LATIFVNDIA ET PROVENTVS RESTITVIT, AVXIT, AMPLIFICAVIT. VELORVM ORNATV PARIETES ECCLESIAE. SACRARIVM SPLENDIDA SVPELLECTILE NOBILITAVIT. LECTVLOS SINGVLIS PVELLIS DISTRIBVIT. IVSTITIA PIETATE FIDE PROBITATE PRVDENTIA INCREDIBILI IN OMNES HVMANITATE (M)AGNORUM ETRVRIAE PRINCIPVM BENEVOLENTIAM. PROCERVM LAVDES. PAVPERVM AMOREM ET IN FVNERE VBERRIMAS LACRYMAS PROMERVIT. OB PRAECLARA TANTI PRAESIDIS MERITA. NVLLA TEMPORVM OBLIVIONE DELENDA. ALUMNI EIVSDEM BREPHOTROPHII PATRI AMANTISSIMO ET BENEFICENTISSIMO POSVERE. OBIIT V. EIDVS APRIL. ANNO M.D.CC.XLII AETATIS SVAE LXIII.	Alessandro Gianfigliazzi canon of the Florentine church, vicar of the bishop of Fiesole, the most vigilant governor of this distinguished foundling hospital lies here in peace. He was in charge of the common good for a period of twenty-two years with the highest praise for him. He restored, enlarged, and extended its estate and its output. He ennobled the sanctuary with splendid furniture, the walls of the vaults of the church to decorate. He distributed single beds for the children. With justice, loyalty, faith, honesty, discretion and incredible kindess for all, he merited the benevolence of the great princes of Tuscany, the praise of great men, the abundant tears and love of the poor at the funeral. On account of the illustrious merits of such a protector, none of which are about to be destroyed by the forgetfulness of time, the wards of this same foundling hospital placed this tomb for their most loving and kind father. He died on the fifth day before the ides of April in the year 1742, his age 63.
1937	Alexand: Gianf. O.H.S.S.	The bones of Alessandro Gianfigliazzi have been placed here.

Individuals (1 total)

Gianfigliazzi, Alessandro (monsignor) di Lodovico

April 9th, 1742 (year is approximate) to 1786

Groups (1 total)

Gianfigliazzi

April 9th, 1742 (year is approximate) to 1786 b

Notes

[] The words "Alexander Gianfigliazius," "brephotrophii," and "alumni" are all carved in larger capitals
[a] Alessandro Gianfigliazzi, the last hospital administrator to be honored with a monument in the Innocenti church, had a wall monument on the left side of the chancel and a smaller marker in the floor. All that survives of the wall monument is the large stone inscription plaque.
[b] Though the inscription still exists, it was moved to a small area behind the altar and thus not particularly visible or honorable.