FLORIN WEBSITE � JULIA BOLTON HOLLOWAY, AUREO ANELLO ASSOCIAZIONE, 1997-2019:
MEDIEVAL: BRUNETTO LATINO, DANTE ALIGHIERI, SWEET NEW STYLE: BRUNETTO LATINO, DANTE ALIGHIERI, &
GEOFFREY CHAUCER || VICTORIAN: WHITE SILENCE:
FLORENCE'S 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY || ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ||
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR || FRANCES TROLLOPE || ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ||
FLORENCE IN SEPIA ||
CITY AND
BOOK CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII || MEDIATHECA 'FIORETTA
MAZZEI' || EDITRICE
AUREO
ANELLO CATALOGUE || UMILTA
WEBSITE || RINGOFGOLD
WEBSITE || LINGUE/LANGUAGES:
ITALIANO, ENGLISH || VITA
New: Dante vivo || White Silence
UNESCO, MEMORY OF THE WORLD
NOMINATION APPLICATION
'FROM GRAVES TO CRADLES'
FLORENCE'S 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY, ITS
ARCHIVE, ITS MEDIATHECA,
ITS RESEARCH, ITS
RESTORATION
A piazza in Florence, a cemetery on a hill with its tall
cypresses, perhaps once an Etruscan tomb, now strangely set in the
midst of swirling modern traffic, through whose gates visitors
step into a different past. An archive, a library, in situ, with the documents
and also with the books by and about the persons buried here:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walter Savage Landor, Frances
Trollope, Southwood Smith, Arthur Hugh Clough, Jean Pierre
Vieusseux, Hiram Powers, Theodore Parker, Richard Hildreth, the
sister of Henry Adams, the wife of Holman Hunt, the daughter of
Arnold Bőcklin, the son of Ferenc Pulszky,
the governess of the Tsar of Russia, the son of William IV of
England, twelve participants of the Peninsula and Waterloo battles
against Napoleon, many friends of Florence Nightingale, whose
tombs the ex-slave Frederick Douglass visited. A place filled with
memory, for Florence, for Italy, for Europe, for the world. A
place dense with meaning, a burning glass of history, for Civil
Rights, for the Aboliton of Slavery, for the rights of nations
(among them Greece, Italy, Poland, Hungary), to be freed from
foreign oppression, for the rights of women, for the rights of
children, for health and welfare, a place for poets and sculptors,
a place for writers and artists. In its oval, reflecting the
bicameral structuring of the brain, are multiple languages, a
United Nations in a city square, peaceably altogether, the
archives in French and Italian, the tombstones they document in
Hebrew, Greek, Roman, Cyrillic and fraktura alphabets and in most European
languages, including Rumantsch. A cemetery celebrated in Arnold
Bőcklin's 'Island of the Dead' and in Sergei Rachmaninoff's music
to the same. Nobles and commoners lying with slaves, serfs and
servants, all walks of life, the Swiss owners burying pauper
travellers for free. In the nineteenth century a beautiful garden,
now being restored in the twenty-first, after years of abandonment
and neglect, from research in Victorian diaries and guidebooks and
from old photographs and paintings. A place whose intent was, is
and will continue to be the 'Memory of the World'.
The Swiss-owned so-called 'English' Cemetery as it was from 1827
to the late 1860's. At the Risorgimento Giuseppe Poggi re-designed
Florence, briefly Italy's capital, with Parisian boulevards,
tearing down the medieval walls built by Arnolfo di Cambio and
Michelangelo Buonarotti to do so. The 'English' Cemetery had
nestled against the outside of the medieval wall by the Porta a'
Pinti Gate. It still has the two stemma of the lily and the cross
Arnolfo sculpted.
The Cemetery with its Gatehouse, housing the library and
archive, as they are now. The tomb of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
is the large sarcophagus on six colums to be seen in the centre
on this side of the central path. The large building behind the
Cemetery is the studio of Michele Gordigiani, who painted the
two portraits of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning which are
now in London's National Portrait Gallery. Francesca Gordigiani,
his descendant, still lives in his studio. We recommend you call
up Google Earth and ask it for 'Piazzale Donatello, Florence',
to see a further aerial view of the Cemetery and Gatehouse..
To call up each section of this file click on the
following:
I. The Swiss Archives
Receipt for burial of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
II. The Swiss-owned so-called
'English' Cemetery
III. Florence in Sepia
IV. Florence's Flood, 1966
V. The Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei'
VI. The Florin Website
VII. 'The City and the Book'
International Conferences in Florence
VIII. The Romanian Roma Restorers
IX. Julia Bolton Holloway, Custodian,
Vita
FLORIN WEBSITE©JULIA BOLTON HOLLOWAY, AUREO ANELLO ASSOCIAZIONE, 1997-2019:
MEDIEVAL: BRUNETTO LATINO, DANTE ALIGHIERI, SWEET NEW STYLE: BRUNETTO LATINO, DANTE ALIGHIERI, &
GEOFFREY CHAUCER || VICTORIAN: WHITE SILENCE:
FLORENCE'S 'ENGLISH' CEMETERY || ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ||
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR || FRANCES TROLLOPE || ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ||
FLORENCE IN SEPIA ||
CITY AND
BOOK CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII || MEDIATHECA 'FIORETTA
MAZZEI' || EDITRICE
AUREO
ANELLO CATALOGUE || UMILTA
WEBSITE || RINGOFGOLD
WEBSITE || LINGUE/LANGUAGES:
ITALIANO, ENGLISH
New: Dante vivo || White Silence