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Casa Vespucci

Casa Vespucci, Renaissance palace in central Florence, Italy.

Casa Vespucci is a 14th-century house at via di Peretola 8, on the corner with via delle Compagnie in the Peretola quarter, not on the Lungarno. Its facade carries a small loggia that sets it apart from the surrounding houses of the old borgo. It is mentioned in the 1427 catasto as a house in the popolo of Santa Maria a Peretola, on the corner of the road to Motrone.

The house is recorded in the 1427 catasto as "a house in the popolo of Santa Maria a Peretola, at the corner of the road to Motrone". In 1483 the brothers Antonio and Amerigo il Navigatore, as heirs, sold it to their cousin Giovanni di Stagio Vespucci, who had lived there as a tenant. The same 1427 return shows that Amerigo's grandfather had already moved into Florence, to the Ognissanti quarter.

The house is named after the Vespucci, the family of Amerigo, and stands in the old borgo of Peretola, not in the city centre. Its identity rests on the 1427 catasto declaration, which records "una casa nel popolo di Santa Maria a Peretola, luogo detto sul canto della strada che va al Motrone". The nearby hospital of San Giovanni di Dio, founded by Simone Vespucci in 1380 as Santa Maria dell'Umiltà, marks where the family's other houses stood.

Casa Vespucci stands at via di Peretola 8, at the corner with via delle Compagnie, in the old Peretola village northwest of central Florence, not on the Arno. It is a private residence, so the fourteenth-century loggia on the facade is best seen from the public street.

The house is not on the Arno but in the old village of Peretola, at via di Peretola 8, and its 14th-century character sets it apart from the surrounding houses, notably through the small loggia on its facade. Marco Conti identified it as the original Vespucci house in 1963, and the finding was first published in 1985.

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