The indignation of the Spedalingo
It was January 30, 1518, when Leonardo Buonafede, “spedalingo” or rector of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence, commissioned Giovan Battista di Jacopo di Gasparre, a promising artist of humble origins, without a real surname and called Rosso Fiorentino a Sacred Conversation. Delivery was scheduled for June of the same year and the agreed amount was 25 wide gold florins
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(Chiara Martine Menchetti)
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