The Basilica di Santa Croce (Italian for 'Basilica of the Holy Cross') is a minor basilica and the principal Franciscan church of Florence, Italy. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 meters southeast of the Duomo of Florence. It is the burial place of notable Italians, including those from the Italian Renaissance such as Michelangelo, Galileo, and Machiavelli, as well as the poet Foscolo, political philosopher Gentile and the composer Rossini.
Santa Croce in Through Darkest Europe[]
The Church of the Holy Cross had been established by one Catholic order, but had been held by the Aquinists for more than two centuries by the time of their uprising. When Lorenzo III, Grand Duke of Italy ordered a crack down on the Aquinists, the Church of the Holy cross was leveled.[1]
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- ↑ Through Darkest Europe, pg. 154, loc. 2245, ebook.
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