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Description: Oratorio della Compagnia di San Michele della Pace

TitleOratorio della Compagnia di San Michele della Pace

Creator nameUnknown

Creator name (description)Photograph by Fabrizio Nevola

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1444

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationPiazza Sant'Ambrogio, Florence

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArchitecture, Renaissance--ItalyChurch architecture--ItalyCatholic church buildings

StatusA Eucharistic symbol, dated 1473, is fixed above and to the right of the door

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Chapter 5. Street Corners: Nodes in the Networks of Urban Community

Fabrizio Nevola

Street Life in Renaissance Italy

So begins one of the light-hearted novellas in Franco Sacchetti’s compendious late-fourteenth-century vernacular collection of short stories, the Trecentonovelle. As Sacchetti reports, it was traditional to eat roast goose on the feast of All Saints, and in this instance a canon of the cathedral of...

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Fabrizio Nevola

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.187-225

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00290.5

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22186&redirecttoanchor=74909

Chapter subject tags:Architecture, Renaissance--ItalyUrban ecology (Sociology)Florence (Italy)Siena (Italy)City and town life--ItalyPublic spaces--Italy

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