San Gaudenzio Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of San Gaudenzio | |
|---|---|
| location | Italy region Tuscany metropolitan city of Florence |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 55 '33 " N , 11 ° 37' 7" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
654 |
| founding year | before 1258 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1482 |
| Mother monastery | Filiation of Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Monastery of San Gaudenzio (Sanctus Gaudentius de pede Alpium) was a former Benedictine and later Cistercian monastery in Tuscany , Italy . It was in the center of San Godenzo around 40 km northeast of Florence in the Mugello landscape in the direction of Forlì in the metropolitan city of Florence .
history
The Benedictine abbey was founded in 1028 by Bishop Jacopo il Bavaro from Fiesole . It is possible that there were two houses, one at 402 m asl, the other at 904 m. The abbey land stretched across the watershed, but most of it lay in Tuscany. Between 1247 and 1258 the monastery passed to the Cistercians. It belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey , but the immediate mother monastery has not survived. Dante Alighieri stayed in the monastery in 1302. The abbey later fell into the future and was abandoned by its monks, who retired to the church of San Salvatore del Pino. In 1482 the monastery was given to the Servites from Florence by Pope Sixtus IV , who made the monastery the residence of their superior general and remained until the Napoleonic period. The church was partially converted into apartments in the 19th century. The community of San Godenzo grew up around the abbey. From 1921 to 1929 the church was restored in the original Romanesque style by Ezio Cerpi. The following year she was given the title of monastery back. It has been a parish church since 1928. When the place was almost completely destroyed in 1944 due to its location at the Gothic position , the monastery remained undamaged.
Plant and buildings
The church is a three-aisled pillar basilica with an open roof and three semicircular apses. It has a crypt and a bell tower.
Works of art
The church contains works by:
- Baccio da Montelupo from Montelupo Fiorentino ( San Sebastiano , wooden statue, made in 1506)
- Giuseppe Cassioli ( Incoronazione della Vergine e Santi , mosaic, created in 1929)
- Bernardo Daddi ( Madonna e Santi , winged altar , attributed, originated in 1333, comes from the church of San Salvatore al Monte in Florence)
- Franciabigio ( Annunciazione , attributed)
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. Dalla fondazione di Citeaux (1098) alla meta del secole decimoquarto . Casamari, Rome 1964, pp. 159-160.
- Emanuele Repetti: SAN GODENZO (S. Gaudentius) in Val di Sieve. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
- Touring Club Italiano : Firenze. Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-365-4345-8 , p. 650 f.
Web links
- Certosa di Firenze website with some photos
- San Godenzo e le sue Chiese , Official website of the municipality of San Godenzo on the local churches
- I luoghi della Fede , website of the Tuscany region about the churches in Tuscany