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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 monastery's Registro Nuovo, compiled around 1402 and transcribed by George Bent (1993, p. 605), indicates the first monastic church was quite small, measuring 13 braccia long, 11 braccia wide, and 7 braccia high, with its high altar measuring 3 braccia. Using the conversion of 58.36 cm to the braccia, Guido Tigler (2022, p. 39) has calculated that the small building was about 7.6 x 6.42 m (approximately 525 sq. ft.) with an altar table 1.75 m (5.75 ft.) wide.

Building S. Maria degli Angeli
Object Type
Space Type church
Status lost
Site indoors
Count of Memorials 1
Database ID 10553

Memorials (1 total)

Angeli 01.1 Altar Maggiore
circa 1295 to circa 1372 (date is approximate)

Individuals (1 total)

Ardinghelli, Bernardo di Lapo di Donato di Ardinghello di Barone bequest by December 28th, 1363

Groups (1 total)

monaci di S. Maria degli Angeli owner circa 1295 (date is approximate) to circa 1372 (date is approximate)

Notes

  • [a] 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; 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. See also Gregorio Farulli, Istoria cronologica del nobile, ed antico monastero degli Angioli di Firenze, del sacro ordine camaldolese dal principio della sua fondazione fino al presente giorno... (Lucca: Pellegrino Frediani, 1710), p. 3.