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Memorials

S. Lucia sul Prato 3 sepoltura Imperatore del Prato

Situated In

S. Lucia sul Prato -- dentro di chiesa
Rosselli Number 3.0
Memorial Type
Status extant
Current Repository moved
Primary Installation floor
Secondary Installation no additional components
Tomb Form rectangular
Liturgical Orientation unk
Documented Types
  • chiusino
  • sepoltura
Component Parts
  • cover
Decorative Elements
  • a
Material
  • marble
Database ID 31440

Dates

1594
1720

Inscriptions (1 total)

2145 IMPERATOR EGO VICI PROELIANDO /
LAPIDIBUS /
ANNO DOMINI MDXCIV		 I, the emperor, conquered fighting with stones in the year of the Lord 1594

Groups (1 total)

Potenza del Imperatore del Prato b
1594 to 1720

Related Memorials (1 total)

S. Lucia sul Prato 2 Cappella de Giunti

Sources (2 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 887, no. 3
G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine vol. 4, p. 216 and 229

Notes

  • [a] It remains unclear whether the coat of arms on the S. Lucia sul Prato tomb represented the Potenza del Prato as a whole or only the man who was emperor in 1594. Giuseppe Richa described the tomb's arms as drawn by Rosselli, though he only mentioned the six-peaked mount and saw blade, omitting the flame at the mount's peak, without further comment. He also reported in his chapter on S. Anna sul Prato that the potenza carried a standard showing the well from the Prato, or field, from which the group took its name.
  • [b] The Torrigiani-sponsored church renovation included repaving of the floor in 1720, which is likely when the inscription from this tomb was installed in the building's facade.