Full text: Hare, Augustus J. C.: Florence

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FLORENCE. 
Imperialists, till Clement VII. had promised to pardon him 
the fortifications he had constructed. In the sacristy is an 
injured fresco of S. Thomas receiving the Cintola, by Ridolfo 
Ghirlandajo. 
The Porta S. Niccolò is the only one of the Florentine 
gates which remains exactly in its ancient state, and it 
retains its three tiers of arches. 
(From near the entrance of the Via de’ Bardi, a passage 
under an archway leads up the hill-side to the Porta S. 
Giorgio, passing, on the right, the house inhabited by Galileo. 
The gate dates from 1324, and has a fresco, by Bernardo 
Daddi, of the Virgin and Child throned, with S. George and 
S. Sigismund. The neighbouring Fortezza di S. Giorgio, or 
Belvidere, was built by Buontalenti for Ferdinand I. The 
Medici kept their treasures in a secret chamber beneath it.) 
On the left of the street—Via Guicciardini—which faces 
the Ponte Vecchio, is the Piazza S. Felicità, where a pillar 
commemorates one of the murderous victories of S. Peter 
Martyr over the heretics called Paterini. The tribune of the 
Church belongs to the Guicciardini, and the historian Fran¬ 
cesco Guicciardini is buried in front of the high-altar. The 
first chapel on the right contains a Deposition, by Jacopo 
Pontormo : in the 5th chapel is a Madonna with Saints, by 
Taddeo Gaddi. In the sacristy is a picture of the Martyr¬ 
dom of S. Felicitas and her sons, attributed to Neri de' 
Bicci. In the chapter-house are frescoes, by Cosimo Ulivelli 
and Agnolo Gheri, and over the altar a Crucifixion, by Niccolò 
Gerini. The portico of the church contains some monu¬ 
ments from an old cemetery which existed here in earlier 
times, including the incised figure of Barduccio Barducci, ob. 
1414, who was twice Gonfalonier, and an altar-tomb with 
a figure of Cardinal Luigi de’ Rossi, 1519, by Baccio di 
Montelupo. 
Now, on the left, we pass the Palazzo Guicciardini, nearly 
opposite to which a tablet marks the house where Macchia- 
velli died. 
At the corner of the Via Toscanella an ancient well marks
	        
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