Palace
of 'Maso degli Albizzi', wool merchant and international banker
"Historic
building of Florentine bourgeoisie represented in 'muramenti'
the powerful family of the Albizi, "wool merchants and international
bankers", who had since century XIV had many possessions and
tower houses in the old center of Florence concentrated in the street
the same name (former Borgo S. Pier Maggiore then Albizi) on the
route of the roads of the Roman florentia. Popular families One
of the most important in their own neighborhood, the Albizi were
established wool merchants , international bankers and were at the
top of the company after 1350. the beginning of the fifteenth century,
the family was one of the few that could compete in the city of
Florence under the Medici, had direct control over the entire process
of production and marketing (including the supply of raw wool.)
The company Albizzi historiographically remains the only example
of a mercantile firm so full, but there are also other business
cases , especially from the fourteenth century, with the extension
of the market to a single producer of wool (weaver) beyond the typical
family company."
(L.b.c.)
"The
palaces of the family were located on the road originally called
Borgo S. Pier Maggiore and later renamed Borgo degli Albizi . Axis
road started from the current square Salvemini (formerly Singing
to the Swallows ) and is aligned with the Via del Corso to Piazza
of the Republic. properties along the axis road was the nerve center
of the ' anti-Medicean party ' , oligarchic system that ruled the
city of Florence until the first half of the fifteenth century with
the exile of Cosimo the Elder in 1434 , and the death of albizzesco
statesman Niccolò
da Uzzano. This palace,
re-organized in its present form at the beginning of the sixteenth
century , was the largest , the most vast and the family, and he
was right and restored the ancient Tower of the Albizzi. resumed
the pattern of traditional building Florentine plaster , with single-light
windows and rusticated . A Properties to intimately linked to the
Lodge family ( Albizi ) in the homonymous square , and belonging
fully to the architectural school of Baccio d' agnolo family of
Florentine sculptors and architects."
(L.b.c.)
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Location
of the building along the axis of Borgo degli Albizi with the small
square at the corner of 'Via delle Seggiole', home of the Lodge
family.
"The
building, erected in 1500 on pre-existing fourteenth-century merchant
houses already partly owned by the family of Albizi in part by Filicaia
(see village Albizi 10) , was restored by order of Luke Albizi between
1625 and 1634 from ' architect Gherardo Silvani , who left behind
- as documented by Filippo Baldinucci - many jobs " so magnificentia
of architectures so hard over and vechio ." with respect to the
existing, at least for the facade , such work does not dramatically
changed the design original and the large factory is still in the
noble and austere forms of the architecture of the Florentine Renaissance,
with the door framed by stone quoins and windows framed by flat
sketches, all crowned by a large overhang roof , always in the wake
of local tradition. the original design of the factory is variously
attributed by scholars to Baccio d'Agnolo or Simone del Pollaiuolo
told the Chronicle, while Gherardo Silvani literature tends to attribute
both the grand lodge with six arches inserted in the back side (
at a time watch a large garden, today , backed by half , a space
where asphalt still stands a tall magnolia tree ), and the scale
that develops on the right side of the hallway. "sulla destra dell'androne."
Text
taken from 'Repertorio delle Architetture civili di Firenze' - C.Paolini.
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Widening
between Borgo degli Albizi and 'Via delle Seggiole', the place where
he built the Lodge family, subsequently incorporated in the building
corner that currently houses the 'bar of the same name'.
"Avaialble
by in heritance to the Frescobaldi, the palace has enjoyed in the
early seventies of the twentieth century of a restoration by architect
Emilio Dori ( which others have followed in the eighties led by
the Dorians in collaboration with the architect Giancarlo Facchini
) which, as pointed out at the time by Leonardo Ginori Straight,
" revealed many architectural details once disappeared, and has
enhanced the important paintings in full ( eighteenth century )
the land area ." These, of significant impact in their decorating
seamless environments , are also well appreciated by the windows
on the street , looking at various rooms currently occupied by commercial
establishments. in the number of these murals placed on the ground
and presumably dated between the thirties and forties of the eighteenth
century , we highlight works contracts awarded ( see the contribution
of Lisa Leonelli ) to Domenico Maria Pope , Matthew Bonechi , Giuseppe
Del Moro and Vincenzo Meucci . on the first floor is a small room
, formerly used as a chapel, decorated by a pupil of Bernardino
Poccetti , and some paintings from the second half of the eighteenth
century , performed on the occasion of the marriage of a Albizi
with Teresa Spinelli (1795). them ).
Text
taken from 'Repertorio delle Architetture civili di Firenze' - C.Paolini
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"On
the front , under the action of the second floor, is a nice shield
from the early sixteenth century the family Albizi ( black, with
two concentric circles of gold, silver loaded with the head of the
cross of black). Above the action the first floor, on the left side
, are the insignia of the Wool and Calimala , at the same height
, the ends of the factory , they repeat the weapons of Albizi .
on the front , this time above the door , we also report a plaque
, placed in 1879 and transcribed by Francesco Bigazzi , reminiscent
of Vittorio Albizi , agronomy expert , who died in 1877 without
male offspring . Notice also how the left , towards the tower of
the Albizi (see at number 14 ) , there is a solution of continuity
given by a property that only at a later time was adjusted in the
design of the front of the main wheels of the factory. the beautiful
gate that closes the entrance hall again has a shield with the arms
of the Albizi , always in the version loaded the Cross of the Teutonic
Order . Along with many private apartments , the building houses
the headquarters of the Papirologico G. Vitelli. palace appears
in the list drawn up in 1901 by the Directorate General of Antiquities
and Fine Arts, which monumental building to be considered heritage
national art , and since 1913 has undergone architectural constraint."
Text
taken from' Repertorio delle Architetture civili di Firenze' - C.Paolini |