It's in fact Swiss-owned and sits in the middle of Piazzale Donatello in Florence. It's the burial place of several artists, writers, philosophers, architects and generally "arty" people from the Protestant world (mainly English as they had a large community in Florence in the 19th century) who chose to make Florence their home. Among them: J.P. Vieusseux, A.H. Clough, W.S. Landor, Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The "English" Cemetery
So called by virtue of being a Protestant cemetery and Protestantism being regarded as an almost exclusively English thing :)
It's in fact Swiss-owned and sits in the middle of Piazzale Donatello in Florence. It's the burial place of several artists, writers, philosophers, architects and generally "arty" people from the Protestant world (mainly English as they had a large community in Florence in the 19th century) who chose to make Florence their home. Among them: J.P. Vieusseux, A.H. Clough, W.S. Landor, Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
It's in fact Swiss-owned and sits in the middle of Piazzale Donatello in Florence. It's the burial place of several artists, writers, philosophers, architects and generally "arty" people from the Protestant world (mainly English as they had a large community in Florence in the 19th century) who chose to make Florence their home. Among them: J.P. Vieusseux, A.H. Clough, W.S. Landor, Frances Trollope and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment