publication year: 2009 - paperback.cm 14x21; pp. 64 - - over 73 colour illustrations -

Greenhorn tourists decide to enter the church of Santa Felicita only because they bump into it on the classic walking tour that takes them from Ponte Vecchio to the Pitti Palace by way of Via Guicciardini. More cultured visitors have a cursory look at the nave while strolling down the Vasari Corridor. and then stop off inside to admire the celebrated Deposition and the other works by Pontormo in the Barbadori-Capponi Chapel. But few people – Florentines included – realize that behind its solidly 18th-century look this church hides a very ancient past. which is intertwined with the introduction of Christianity in late Roman Florence. A concise and complete guidebook that will delight the reader with a treasure trove of surprises.