Badia Fiorentina
Abbey and church in Florence, Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Monastic Communities of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante (though in reality unlikely to be his real home). He would have heard the monks singing the Mass and the Offices here in Latin Gregorian chant, as he famously recounts in his Commedia: "Florence, within her ancient walls embraced, Whence nones and terce still ring to all the town, Abode aforetime, peaceful, temperate, chaste."[1] In 1373, Boccaccio delivered his famous lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy in the subsidiary chapel of Santo Stefano, just next to the north entrance of the Badia's church.
Badia Fiorentina | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
Province | Florence |
Year consecrated | 978 |
Location | |
Location | Florence, Italy |
Geographic coordinates | 43°46′13.56″N 11°15′27.78″E |
Architecture | |
Type | Church |