Settignano

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Settignano

Settignano is a picturesque frazione
Frazione

A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere....
ranged on a hillside northeast of Florence

Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, Italy

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, with spectacular views that have attracted expatriates for generations. The little borgo
Borgo

Borgo is an Italian word , cognate with English borough, German Burg, French bourg, that now usually means the new town outside the walls of an old town ....
of Settignano carries a familiar name for having produced three sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance, Desiderio da Settignano

Desiderio da Settignano

Desiderio da Settignano, real name Desiderio de Bartolomeo di Francesco detto Ferro was an Italian sculptor active during the Renaissance....
and the Gamberini brothers, better known as Bernardo Rossellino

Bernardo Rossellino

Bernardo di Matteo Gamberelli , better known as Bernardo Rossellino, was an Italy sculptor and architect, the elder brother of the painter Antonio Rossellino....
and Antonio Rossellino

Antonio Rossellino

Antonio Gamberelli , nicknamed Antonio Rossellino for the colour of his hair, was an Italy sculptor. His older brother, from whom he received his formal training, was the painter Bernardo Rossellino....
. The young Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
lived with a sculptor and his wife in Settignano—in a farmhouse that is now the "Villa Michelangelo"— where his father owned a marble quarry. In 1511 another sculptor was born there, Bartolomeo Ammanati

Bartolomeo Ammanati

Bartolomeo Ammanati was a Florentine architect and Sculpture....
. The marble quarries of Settignano produced this series of sculptors.

Roman remains are to be found in the borgo which claims connections to Septimus Severus—in whose honor a statue was erected in the oldest square in the 16th century, destroyed in 1944— though habitation here long preceded the Roman emperor. Settignano was a secure resort for estivation for members of the Guelf faction

Guelphs and Ghibellines

The Guelphs and Ghibellines were Political factions supporting, respectively, the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor in central and northern Italy during the 12th and 13th centuries....
of Florence. Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italy author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanism and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular....
and Niccolò Tommaseo

Niccolò Tommaseo

Niccol? Tommaseo was an Italian linguist, journalist and essayist, the editor of a Dizionario della Lingua Italiana, a dictionary of synonyms and other works....
both appreciated its freshness, among the vineyards and olive groves that are the preferred setting for even the most formal Italian gardens. In 1898 Gabriele d'Annunzio

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Gabriele d'Annunzio was an Italy poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as an influence on the Italian Fascist movement and the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini....
purchased the trecento Villa della Capponcina on the outskirts of Settignano, in order to be nearer to his lover Eleanora Duse, at the Villa Porziuncola. Near Settignano are the Villa Gamberaia

Villa Gamberaia

Villa Gamberaia is a 14th-century Tuscan villa near Settignano, outside Florence, which is famous for its 18th-century terraced garden. The beauty of the setting was praised by Edith Wharton, who saw it after years of tenant occupation with its parterre planted with roses and cabbages, and by Georgina Masson, who saw it restored by Sig....
, a 14th-century villa famous for its 18th-century terraced garden, and secluded Villa I Tatti, the villa of Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson

Bernard Berenson was an USA art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters"....
, now a center of art history studies run by Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
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