Spaces

The second church, renovated several times after its reconstruction between January 1372 and December 1373, was considerably larger than the original oratory built by don Orlando. According to Guido Tigler (2022, p. 39), the larger church measured about 50 braccia long and 20 wide, or 30 x 11.5 m (approximately 3,714 sq. ft.) using the conversion of 58.36 cm to the braccia, about a sevenfold increase in interior space from the original small oratory, whose dimensions were recorded in the monastery's Registro Nuovo and reported by don Gregorio Farulli in his Istoria cronologica (1710, p. 3).

Stefano Rosselli relied on a tomb register dated 1580 to compile his own account in 1650-1657, which seems to be the same sepoltuario referenced by Giovanni del Migliore in his description of the monastery.

Building S. Maria degli Angeli
Object Type
Space Type church
Status lost
Site indoors
Count of Memorials 3
Count of Memorials in Sub-Spaces 5
Database ID 10552

Sub-Spaces (1 total)

Memorials (3 total)

Angeli 04a tomb of Montalvi family
Angeli 04b Tomb of Montalvi family
Angeli 04c tomb of Benedetto Varchi 1566

Individuals (1 total)

Varchi, Benedetto (messer) di S. Giovanni di Guasparri burial; honoree December 21st, 1565; November 19th, 1566 to 1871 b

Groups (2 total)

Ramirez de Montalvo honoree circa 1580 (date is approximate) to 1866
Varchi honoree

Notes

  • [a] For a transcription of the Registro Nuovo see George R. Bent, “Santa Maria degli Angeli and the Arts: Patronage, Production, and Practice in a Trecento Florentine Monastery. (Volumes I and II)” (PhD. diss., Stanford University, 1993), doc. 1, p. 605. See also Gregorio Farulli, Istoria cronologica del nobile, ed antico monastero degli Angioli di Firenze... (Lucca: Pellegrino Frediani, 1710), p. 3; Ferdinando Leopoldo del Migliore, Firenze città nobilissima illustrata da Ferdinando Leopoldo Del Migliore. Prima, seconda, e terza parte del primo libro (Florence: Stella, 1684), p. 330; and Guido Tigler, “Lo sviluppo architettonico del complesso: dalla fondazione alla ‘Rotonda’ del Brunelleschi.” In Santa Maria degli Angeli a Firenze: Da Monastero Camaldolese a Biblioteca Umanistica, edited by Cristina De Benedictis, Carla Milloschi, and Guido Tigler, 39–187 (Firenze: Nardini editore, 2022), p. 39.

  • [b] A new plaque, in the chiostro dei Morti at Santa Maria degli Angeli, was installed in 1871 when memorials were removed from the church.