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AMMANATI, Bartolommeo (1511-1592). Four autograph letters signed, two letters signed, and three letters written and signed in his name to Giovanni Caccini Provveditore in Pisa, with one autograph document signed, Florence, 25 April 1563 - 16 June 1565, primarily concerned with the arrangements and costs for the transport, restoration and erection of the porphyry column in the Piazza Sta Trinita, altogether 7 pages, sizes 282 x 220mm - 295mm x 215mm, 7 with integral address leaves with contemporary endorsements and cut to provide seal strip, two with address panels and contemporary endorsements, 3 with papered seals (one detached), 4 with traces of seals, document with contemporary endorsement.
Cosimo's scheme to erect columns in the piazzas of S. Marco, Sta Trinita and S. Felice was one of the most explicit uses of civic enhancement to symbolise his virtue as a ruler; the columns were to carry statues of Peace, Justice and Religion. The earliest to be erected was the granite column from the Baths of Caracalla that had been offered to Cosimo by Pius IV. The shaft was brought by sea to Livorno and thence to Signa. It was unloaded at Signa and brought overland to Florence. These letters relate to this final leg of the journey and to Ammanati's arrangements relative to the subsequent delivery of two pieces of the column from Pisa, the work to restore it and the preparations and provisions for raising it. The column itself arrived in Florence on 21 September 1563 and was successfully erected on 2 July 1565: Agostino Lapini, Diario (Florence, 1900).
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Cosimo's scheme to erect columns in the piazzas of S. Marco, Sta Trinita and S. Felice was one of the most explicit uses of civic enhancement to symbolise his virtue as a ruler; the columns were to carry statues of Peace, Justice and Religion. The earliest to be erected was the granite column from the Baths of Caracalla that had been offered to Cosimo by Pius IV. The shaft was brought by sea to Livorno and thence to Signa. It was unloaded at Signa and brought overland to Florence. These letters relate to this final leg of the journey and to Ammanati's arrangements relative to the subsequent delivery of two pieces of the column from Pisa, the work to restore it and the preparations and provisions for raising it. The column itself arrived in Florence on 21 September 1563 and was successfully erected on 2 July 1565: Agostino Lapini, Diario (Florence, 1900).
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