FRANCESCO FEROCI

The priest Francesco Feroci (San Giovanni Valdarno 1673-Florence 1750), was student of Giovanni Maria Casini and his successor in the position of first organist of the Cathedral of Florence, so to insert himself in the great school of organs that through the teacher of Casini, Francesco Nigetti, reconnects himself to Girolamo Frescobaldi. Thanks to the interest of Bardi’s Family, Feroci was able to study in Florence at the Eugenian College, where he received an accurate literary instruction. Two of his manuscripts of burlesque verses are in the Central National Library of Florence, where the most complete of the two probably derives from autographs left to Folco Rinuccini, that inherited the entire quantity of Feroci’s poetical and musical manuscripts.
The manuscripts that contain music of Feroci are currently preserved abroad, and particularly in Germany. The critical edition, being published and edited by Armando Carideo under the publishing house Ut Orpheus of Bologna, is the result of years of work, of rediscovery and transcription. A CD with the music of Feroci interpreted by Armando Carideo at the organ and by the Florentine group of Cantori di Lorenzo, was released by the Esperia record company of Pescara.

MASACCIO

Tommaso di Giovanni Cassai, better known as Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno, 1401- Rome, 1428), arrives very young in Florence and enters the circle of his compatriot Masolino da Panicale.

MASOLINO

Masolino formed himself by working at the north door of the Florentine Baptistery with Ghiberti. Sensitive to the perspective revolution of the fifteenth century.

MARIOTTO DI CRISTOFANO

The figure of this painter who comes from Valdarno is strictly related to that of Masaccio. Mariotto was born in San Giovanni around 1395 and was brother-in-law of the great painter.

LO SCHEGGIA

Giovanni of Ser Giovanni from Mone Cassai was Masaccio’s younger brother. He was born from Giovanni and Jacopa; surely influenced in the choice of his profession by his grandfather Mone Cassaio.

GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI

Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni (San Giovanni Valdarno 1592 – Florence 1636) was considered by his contemporaries an excellent teacher and fresco painter.

NICCOLO’ NASONI

Niccolò Nasoni (San Giovanni Valdarno 1691-1773) was a painter and internationally renowned architect who worked in Siena, Rome, Malta and, mainly, in Oporto, Portugal.

FRANCESCO FEROCI

The priest Francesco Feroci (San Giovanni Valdarno 1673-Florence 1750), was student of Giovanni Maria Casini and his successor in the position of first organist of the Cathedral of Florence.