English Cemetery, Florence

The Cimitero degli Inglesi (cemetery of the English) is a cemetery in Florence. It was created in the 19th century for non-Catholics, especially Protestants. Graves of British predominate because these, including many writers and artists in Florence, the largest group was at that time among the foreigners.

History

1827 acquired the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church of the Grand Ducal administration under Leopold II, a piece of land in front of the now defunct city gate Porta a Pinti, outside the medieval Florentine city wall on the road to Fiesole to there a cemetery for Protestants and Orthodox Christians to apply. Previously, these could, if they died in Florence, to be buried only in Livorno hundred kilometers away.

The cemetery was designed by the young students of architecture Carlo rice hammer. It is situated on a flat, today overgrown with trees, especially cypress hill, and is divided by two orthogonal paths lying in four quadrants. On Wegkreuzungspunkt a column stands a stone cross, Frederick William IV of Prussia in 1858 set up.

Today's oval shape was the cemetery by Giuseppe Poggi, as in Florence, since 1865 the capital of Italy, demolished the medieval city walls, and instead the ring roads ( viali di circonvallazione ) were created. The cemetery has since been on a traffic island in Piazzale Donatello. In 1877, the cemetery was closed for Neubestattungen. Non- Catholic groups use since the Cimitero degli Allori at Galluzzo.

Today, the cemetery is occasionally used again for burials. At the entrance is a small library with materials on the history of the cemetery and with reference to the buried in the cemetery people.

Notable people

In the cemetery there are 1409 graves, including writers, artists, merchants and others from 16 nations. Known in the cemetery are beige sat personalities:

• Theodore Parker (1810-1860), American theologian and writer
• George Augustus Wallis (1761-1847), British landscape painter
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), English poet, the tomb was designed by Frederic Leighton.
• Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), English writer
• Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), English physician and social reformer
• Frances Trollope (1779-1863), English writer
• Giovan Pietro Vieusseux (1779-1863), Italian writer and publisher, founder of the Gabinetto Vieusseux
• Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), English writer
• Hiram Powers (1805-1873), American sculptor
• Joel Tanner Hart (1810-1877), American sculptor ( exhumed )

Swell

Il Cimitero protest ante detto " Inglesi " in Firenze, brochure cemetery, text by Luigi Pastore Santini, del Cimitero degli Allori Amministrazione (1981 )