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Palazzo Caccini (also known as Palazzo del Corona) is located in
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at Borgo Pinti 31–33, on the corner of Via Nuova dei Caccini.


History and description

In the 15th century this was the home of the Ferrantini family, known for having been chosen – evidently because of the nobility and spaciousness of the rooms – to host the
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and the twenty-three Orthodox bishops during the
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of 1439. Passed down through hereditary lineage to the Caccini, it was progressively enlarged by them (during the years of prior Francesco Domenico), until a unitary renovation was carried out that literature places between 1561 and 1564 circa and refers to Giovanni Caccini, an intimate of the
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family (but not to be confused with the architect
Giovanni Battista Caccini Giovanni Battista Caccini or Giovan Battista Caccini (24 October 1556 – 13 March 1613) was an Italian sculptor from Florence, who worked in a Classicism, classicising style in the later phase of Mannerism. Life Giovanni Battista Caccini was b ...
of
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), however assisted by
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. All that remains of Caccini are the initials G. C. A. chitect or Alexandri (son of Alexander)F. orentino or fecit carved on some architraves on the ground floor. The portal (later transformed) is attributed to
Bartolomeo Ammannati Bartolomeo Ammannati (18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence, Italy. He studied under Baccio Bandinelli and Jacopo Sansovino (assisting on the design of the Library of St. Mark ...
, but has no relation with the 18th-century relief by
Ferdinando Ruggieri Ferdinando Ruggeri (Florence, 1691–1741) was an Italian architect, active in Florence during the late Baroque period. Ruggèri helped design the left facade of the Church of San Firenze (1715), the Palazzo Capponi in Florence, the Palazzo San ...
that refers to the Palazzo del Cavalier Vernaccia, at the time owner and united to the Caccini by marriage ties. Restoration of the façade in 2022 revealed that the portal of house no. 31 is in the Ammannatesque style, and that the drawing of the portal of house no. 33 is attributable to Pasqui, when he redesigned the façade. The façade, with its slightly broken lines, organised on three floors plus a mezzanine for no less than thirteen axes, is the result of restoration work carried out by the architect Leopoldo Pasqui around 1843, as attested by Federico Fantozzi. Behind the palace, thanks to Matteo Caccini, a large garden was developed in the early 17th century, known for the rare and exotic plants cultivated (including the first onions, the tuberi della patata), and especially for the flowering plants with species from all the then known world, which for a long time made the garden more famous than the palazzo itself. All that remains of the garden today is a green area, which borders the back of the
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. After the Caccinis, the palazzo passed to the del Vernaccia family, to the Riccardi and, in the 19th century, to the Del Corona family, the Pasqui Cartoni family and then to the Geddes da Filicaia.
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lived here for a time. The current ownership of the palazzo, divided into flats, is divided between many parties. «The uninterrupted series of windows in the two upper orders of the façade contributes to the harmony of the façade and helps, together with the slightly curved position and the contrast with the narrowness of the old village, to give a simple yet grandiose appearance to the whole. Passing through the central doorway, one enters the graceful five-light ground-floor loggia overlooking the garden, which has four singularly shaped windows with large volutes on the upper sides and interesting frescoes with grotesques and allegorical figures that revolve around the theme of the liberal arts, while in the centre delicate putti hold the coat of arms of the Da Filicaia».Adsi, 2003 On Via Nuova de' Caccini (house numbers 7–21), the building has a modern addition, added by the architect Rolando Pagnini and built in the early 1970s, despite attempts to oppose the project by
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and the momentary closure of the building site in July 1971.


See also

* Palazzo degli Sporti


Notes


Bibliography


Italian sources

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Palazzo Caccini Palazzo Caccini (also known as Palazzo del Corona) is located in Florence at Borgo Pinti 31–33, on the corner of Via Nuova dei Caccini. History and description In the 15th century this was the home of the Ferrantini family, known for having be ...