DESCRIPTION

E S T U D J

OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FACTORY

FLOWER AMARIA

FLORENCE METRO

IN VARIOUS STRANDED CARDS

BERNARDO SANSONE SGRILLI

A R C H I, ROOF

AND FROM THE SAME."DEVOTE

* ALV height TI E. A L E

GIO GASTONE Ix

GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY.




In Florence the year MDCCXXXIII.

For Bernardo Paperini.
WITH HIGHER LIC^ZA DB.



HEIGHT



ILE ALE



He is well julto for every
title, which not to others ,
that at the real height
Yours I give me the ono-
Re d ' humiliate P incifione
of those branches, howbeit-
lli to the eyes of the wise even more remote

the infi-




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L'infigne, wonder, celebratilfima Fab-
brica of the Greater Temple than that a
You olTequiofa Metropolis. Many were,
to say the truth, that in the past centuries
they tried to make a lot of it.,
not less to efporre ali 1 others News the
beautiful, and the wonder, which inferred
in S� grand ' Opera i tre * indulgi Architet-
Ti, Arnolfo, Giotto, and Brunellefco,
how much to brighten strongly, and Dar lu-
llro with a yes ftabile Efempio alle belle
Arts, that folo deggi, after the funeral-
fima their fall, their reflection in
Italy to the magnanimous Indole De ' Gloriofi
Other antecedents, which from the long efi-
and from the miferable idleness, in which helleno
lay Fi were, to the primiero fplendore
generously in that Homeland, and more ways
in the hearts of our citizens I call them back-
Nope. As though the most accurate I'm-
rici, and Cromili nollri N' have of me-
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moria lafciato, no one has so far better
propose to reveal the good light for
right principles of Art, of that, which
done with deep accuracy, and
with equal pleasure Ofintervations, and
meet Senator Gio again: Batifta Nelli di
happy rammemoranza, Administrator already of
queft ' Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore,
which fvifcerand
mifure, and the proportions of ciafchedun de'
it was the members, and the
maeflringly in the inside of that
Cofparfi factory, animate the beauty of the-
the hefferent, come to penetrate the straight line
idea of fuoi coftruttori, and to form
let those juffts Defy, which I will to conquer.-
King the ftudio of the amateurs of the perfect
Architecture (addane La fincera De-
fcription, which with purity of terms is
Hata made by erudite lap pen-
lamo Ticciati famous sculptor, and arches-

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roof of 1 no other times ) I believed not
totally useless the efporre in my ones
Branch. Imperceptible nosy not by one
fola part, or from another, that beautiful
FIA, re-enhance the beauty of some illu-
ftre building, but from a whole whole of
beautiful parts composed in a juft order
place, whence then that harmony Fi pro-
duce, how beautiful addimandafi, and that for
the efteriori fenfi 1 ' animo noftro a fe ra-
pifce, and delight; so from quefte diverfe
Cards, for within which the whole of yes
great factory ftudiolamente Fi rapprefen-
ta, fperar I profit, that she has in
quefta new view to rimoftrare, cioc-
what in efla of beautiful, and to pretend re-
he holds, for glory no less than Artefi-
there were induftriofifsimi, that of Tofcana

great mother fempre of Science, and
of Arts; which to whom in fact-
ro fi is efercitato Han conferred of light,

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how much hellenos get from the incline
Mind of your Royal Highness of ef-
fe in fommo, and excellent grade, with
ifceltoffimo conofcimento, finoffimo PoiTe-
Ditor. But then I give myself the-
strong to fulfill the humble
yes, but I need to do my duty.,
Fi worthy, as I highly the fupplico,
d ' accept your real clemency
those weak labors my fuck 1-altiffi-
and to look at them with
that iflefsifsimo love, with which she has
loved, and loves Iftelfe Sciences, and with
which fi is fempre benignly deigned
to benefit the fervor of the whole Cafa
mia, why so I make elfendo for such
Haubergo from the blows of envy:

That d bei principi volentier contrafla,

I will be able no less to prepare others in-
traprefe groped in my ftudj, that more

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worthily Call Me, which with pro
we merge riffetto Mi glorio d ' efl�re

Of Your Royal Highness
Florence li 18. Agofto 1733.



Vmilijjtmo Obligatiff�mo servant, and subject

Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli



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THE PRINTER

TO THOSE WHO READ.



That I do not recuse myself of
pose [eight to quefti my Tor-
who all that, that from happy, and
clear pens vegnendo can
give birth to f names of co-
they, that Budianfi to illustrate T Works of
those great authors, that their wits to fa-
vore of quefla Patria employed; I hope
of course, that is not for riufcir difcara
to whom will he deign to carefully confederar-
the impreffion of queJF operates, for within-
which thou shalt find, O Court Fe Readerer, from
satisfy t erudite your genius, yes in the dili-
gentijfime Mr Ber' s carving efforts-
nardo Sanfone Sgrilli, that in the efattijfi-

but de Clutch, that giufla the terms deli Ar-
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you made the well-known Mr. Girola-
no less clear sculptor, quan-
to excellent architect of queflo century . In
I therefore make the most humble thanks to
that son-in-law will please me.
the fperimentata your virtuofa attention you
I wish Dalf Immortal Dator d ' all good,
the most coflant profperity.




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DESCRIPTION

OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FACTORY

S. MARIA DEL FIORE

OF FLORENCE

CALLED THE CATHEDRAL*



Like the Profefiori of the Arches-
they must have an ob-
bligation well diftinta to that-
excellent, and learned men ,
that having given precepts, e_.
rules of queft ' Arte, Fi phono
made even from distant times I direct-
Re, and the maeftri of the fecols to come; so shall not-




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ve less eflere applauded 1 ' opera, and the fati-
of those, who in the delineation of the Fab-
briche have procured to enrich the art glue
news of the most angular works, and with them
ftudiofe labors have facilitated that ltrada_,,
that anco agi ' ingenie Pi fpediti Fi renders pur
too malagable, and abhorrent; for some,
and the rest illuminating the minds of the Profeflbri
they cooperated in placing V Architecture in_,
that excellence, and in that maefty, in the-
she appeared in the noftri fecoli .

Of all those, who in that manner have-
no colle ftampe fact common to the world those
riches of Architecture, which encloses the city
of Florence, fi must a (swallow reconnectfcimen-
to Mr. Ferdinando Ruggieri famous Ar-
chitetto de ' nothother times, for having given frefca-
mind to light in diverfi Tomi L'opera de ' pi�
Profeflbri , outlined , and mifurate with_,
pay attention and attention.

But not eflendofi yet tried some
to donate to the public the delineation of the great-
de^ maravigliofa Church factory Metro-
politana of Santa Maria del Fiore, which-
the Cathedral is said to refer to that
little, which inferred the fountain in the De-
fcription of the Vatican Temple; so it is, that
effondo flati made many ftudj of medefima since
Mr Gio: Batifta Nelli Senator Fiorentino, not_,
he has great time deceased, who joining the

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nobility of the fangue 1 'love of the beli' Arts, fi
he applied from his youth to the ftudj of the
Mattematiche, and architecture; fi is believed
to bring not small benefit to the Profef-
by publishing them with the press, so that the experts
art not reftino without those lights so much
neceflarj for large factories; 1 ' occafioni
of which eff�ndo raril�me, they bring many feco
difficulty, and many damn, that fenza offerva-
of that, that in fimili cafi have ope-
rato the excellent Maeftri of Art is very
difficult to walk fenza stumble. The fuddetti
ftudj Fi pol� no afsure of full effectiveness, and
punctuality, efiendo flato Mr. Senator Nelli
long service life in the employment of the-
the work of the mentovato Temple, and afsiftito from-
the attention and intelligence of Mr. Gio: Badila
Bettini, who at the time was an architect of the_,
Factory, which has still contributed a lot
with his affiftance to the difpofition, and-
chin of queft ' Opera.

About the principle of that grand building
find some variety in writers; Thu: Vil-
lani, and Simon of Tophah say this ephiere fla-
in the year 1294. and in the ancient infcription fi-
tuata fuora of Chiefa, in the verfo part the Cam-
panile, Fi says in 1298. and the medefimo affer-
but the mouths; Fi has for other news, that in

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1294. the Florentine Senate faceffe the decree of
remake 1 'ancient cathedral, and that the' execution of the
medefimo feguiffe in 1298. All but agree-
gono, that the first stone fofle pofta the day
8. of September, Nativity of Our Lady, from
Latin Cardinal Orfini of the Order of Predi-
catori, Legate of Pope Bonifazio Vili, to the
foreword of all the clergy, and of the Magiftrates of-
the city, as among the others fi derives from his father
Maeftro F. Francefco Orlendi, of the Ifteflb Ordi-
in his scholarly work,-
pilando fopra the univerfale lftoria of the world,
the second Volume of Part II. P. 1255.
The architect was Arnolfo, the most excellent Pro-
Tector of the fuoi times, at which (ephlendus dead
in 1330.) was foftituito Giotto in 1 3 34.

The prophesying of that factory went
slowly; imperceptible in an ancient pit-
tura pofta in the Bigallo made in 1342. fi sees,
that at that time the new facade was elevated-
from the ground folly to above the eyes of the
Door. Matteo Villani lib. 2. cap. 9. he says, that^
of the Mefe d'agofto 1357. Cav went j� allato aW Al-
Tare of San Zanobi in the Chiefa Cathedral of Fi-