In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . exposure of the low-ceilingedcrypt underneath the choir, are features common toboth churches. We heard a full musical Mass inthe church at Fiesole on the festa of San Francisco,and the singing and reading from the elevated choirwere very impressive. There are few monuments in the church, but oneof these, the tomb of Bishop Leonardo Salutati, thefamous masterpiece of Mino da Fiesole, done in1462, together with the beautiful altar-piece oppo-site it by the same sculptor, are worth a whole rowof the modern monuments in Italys Westm
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . exposure of the low-ceilingedcrypt underneath the choir, are features common toboth churches. We heard a full musical Mass inthe church at Fiesole on the festa of San Francisco,and the singing and reading from the elevated choirwere very impressive. There are few monuments in the church, but oneof these, the tomb of Bishop Leonardo Salutati, thefamous masterpiece of Mino da Fiesole, done in1462, together with the beautiful altar-piece oppo-site it by the same sculptor, are worth a whole rowof the modern monuments in Italys Westminster(Santa Croce). The tower of the cathedral, slen-der and crenelated, is a conspicuous object fromFlorence. Below Fiesole, on the way to Florence, is SanDomenico di Fiesole, with its Dominican convent of1405, where Fra Angelico lived. He painted manyof its walls with frescoes, mostly since removed ordestroyed. Indeed, only two now remain. Themost famous one taken away is the Coronation ofthe Virgin, in the Louvre. Near San Domenico is the ancient Badia, the. Photo. Alinari Tomb Monument of Bishop Leonardo Salutati Alino da Fiesole: Duomo of Fiesole Feudal Castles and Fiesole 211 primitive church of Fiesole, erected, as was the cus-tom of the times, outside the fortified walls. Itfell into ruin after the cathedral was built, but inthe fifteenth century was rebuilt by Brunelleschi andMichelozzo at the command and expense of Cosimodei Medici. Here in 1452 that Giovanni dei Medici,who afterward became Pope Leo X, was investedwith his cardinals robes. The Badia seems to havebeen a sort of headquarters for the literary and ar-tistic activity of the Medici and their more im-mediate entourage. Lorenzo the Magnificent, andhis precious group of Platonic philosophers andpoets, were often here, and Cosimo had already col-lected in the Badia a splendid library of codices andrare works. These were transferred in 1783 tofound the Laurenziana in Florence. The villas of the southern and eas
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