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Identifier: southbyeastnotes00rodwrich (find matches)
Title: South by east : notes of travel in southern Europe
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Rodwell, G. F. (George Farrer), b. 1843
Subjects: Europe, Southern -- Description and travel 1871-1918
Publisher: London : M. Ward & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of Florence is the SantaCroce, which is its Westminster Abbey, and contains the tombsof many of the most eminent Florentines, or monumentserected to their memory. Michael Angelo is buried here, andthere are monuments to the memory of Dante, Galileo, LeoBaptista Alberti, Alfieri, Machiavelli, and many others. Thechurch also contains some remarkable frescoes by Giotto, recentlydiscovered under the whitewash. The Church of S, Lorenzo,facing the Piazza of S. Lorenzo, and near the centre of the town,is one of the most ancient churches in Italy, having beenconsecrated by S. Ambrose in 393. It was burned down, however,in 1423, and was subsequently erected from the designs of threeof the most eminent Italian architects—Brunelleschi, MichaelAngelo, and Donatello. The Sacristy contains the world-renownedmonuments of the Medici, which are considered the chef dJceuvres 52 Bologna, Florence, Pisa. of Michael Angelo. They were erected by the order of Giulio deMedici (Pope Clement VIII.) in 1523.
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MIOriAKL ANOELO. Memorials of Michael Angelo meet one at every turn inFlorence. His city is justly proud of him. Mrs. OHphant speaksof him as the greatest Florentine master, he who stands aloneamong the crowd, exceeding all, as his gigantic statues tower overall other works, alone at once in greatness and in individuality. The four marble figures—Day and Night, Evening and Da.wn— * u The Makers of Florence, 1876. Monastery of S. Marco. . 53 are among the finest of modern sculptures, and may be comparedwithout disadvantage with some of the finest sculptures of antiquities.Near to this Sacristy is the Chapel of the Princes, in which six ofthe Medici are interred. It is a most gorgeous structure, encrustedwith marbles and mosaics ; the princes are buried in vast granitesarcophagi, above some of which there are bronze statues. Thechapel is said to have cost the Medici family more than £800,000.In the Church of S. Maria Novella there are also several fine privatechapels, which belong

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