The Temple of Itale Glorie

From what has been said, you will have understood why Santa Croce is considered the Temple of the Italians, indeed, in the words of Foscolo himself "Temple of the Italian glories".

In addition to the monuments mentioned by Foscolo, you can admire the tomb of Gioacchino Rossini, Lorenzo and Vittore Ghiberti; Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello Sanzio, Giosuè Carducci, the inventors of the Barsanti petrol engine and Matteucci the scientist Enrico Fermi are remembered in plaques leaning against the walls of the aisles.

Numerous tombs of Florentine notables, whose family history has become part of the Great World History, such as the bankers Bardi and Peruzzi who ordered the decoration of their noble chapels in Giotto and who sank into a devastating crisis for the money loaned and never returned to the king of England during the Hundred Years War against France.