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AMMANATI, Bartolommeo (1511-1592). Five autograph letters signed, and one autograph letter with the signature of his agent Benedetto Giramonte to Francesco Busini Provveditore in Pisa, Florence, 16 April 1569 - 8 April 1570, concerning the transport of a large marble column from Seravezza to Pisa, altogether 4½ pages, sizes 290 x 210mm - 295 x 215mm, 3 with integral address leaves with contemporary endorsements and cut to provide seal strip, 3 with address panels with contemporary endorsements, 2 with papered seals and 4 with traces of seals (creased edge on one autograph letter signed).
Piazza S. Marco was one of the city squares that Cosimo intended to embellish with a column that would serve as a visible symbol of the qualities of his rule (see lot 6): in this case Peace on a large marble column. In the letter of 16 April 1569 Ammanati informed Busini of his preparations for moving the colonna grande from the quarry of Serravezza and requested that Busini organise the construction of carts and waggons and a large 'table' of oak: 'Ancora vi sarebbe di bisognio a Seraveza per detta colonna un tavolone di quercia di bracia 19 lungho e grosso ½ bracio e largo un bracio e se tale lungheza no si truova, V.S. lo facca trovare di dua pezi di bracia 9½'. Arrangements were still being made in May and included building a road. During the delicate operation to lower it from the quarry this column broke. Cosimo ordered another to be extracted. In the letter of 27 January 1570(n.s.) Ammanati arranges to have more wood cut for wagons for 'questaltra colonna grande' and in the letter of 8 April tells that His Serene Highness had instructed him to go to Serravezza to lower the column and transport it to the port. He went in May and this time the 'colonna grande' was lowered succesfully. Having got as far as the Marina in October 1570 the column came to a halt for 9 months - no barge could be found that was big enough to carry it. Eventually boats and seamen were brought from elsewhere. The column finally reached Piazza S. Marco on 27 Sept 1572, but it was never erected. When work started on it in 1628 it broke.
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Piazza S. Marco was one of the city squares that Cosimo intended to embellish with a column that would serve as a visible symbol of the qualities of his rule (see lot 6): in this case Peace on a large marble column. In the letter of 16 April 1569 Ammanati informed Busini of his preparations for moving the colonna grande from the quarry of Serravezza and requested that Busini organise the construction of carts and waggons and a large 'table' of oak: 'Ancora vi sarebbe di bisognio a Seraveza per detta colonna un tavolone di quercia di bracia 19 lungho e grosso ½ bracio e largo un bracio e se tale lungheza no si truova, V.S. lo facca trovare di dua pezi di bracia 9½'. Arrangements were still being made in May and included building a road. During the delicate operation to lower it from the quarry this column broke. Cosimo ordered another to be extracted. In the letter of 27 January 1570(n.s.) Ammanati arranges to have more wood cut for wagons for 'questaltra colonna grande' and in the letter of 8 April tells that His Serene Highness had instructed him to go to Serravezza to lower the column and transport it to the port. He went in May and this time the 'colonna grande' was lowered succesfully. Having got as far as the Marina in October 1570 the column came to a halt for 9 months - no barge could be found that was big enough to carry it. Eventually boats and seamen were brought from elsewhere. The column finally reached Piazza S. Marco on 27 Sept 1572, but it was never erected. When work started on it in 1628 it broke.
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