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from the British and American communities of Florence, and who gave the largest sum of money for the purchase of its land. The cemetery also holds the bodies of non-English speaking
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and British buried here, those of the English-speaking British and Americans are the majority as the Anglophone community in Florence in the nineteenth century was the largest.
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treasured a photograph of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb and wrote 'The soul selects her own society' about it, using lines also from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's
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The Comune of Florence has now allowed the Swiss Church to reopen the cemetery for burials, but only of cremated remains, not bodies.
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British women writers and the reception of ancient Egypt, 1840–1910 : imperialist representations of Egyptian women
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burials joining the Protestant ones. A young architectural student, Carlo Reishammer, landscaped the cemetery.
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The custodian of the cemetery is medieval scholar Julia Bolton Holloway, formerly a nun of the Anglican order
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The Cemetery had to be closed in 1877, when the law forbade burials of bodies within city limits.
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pioneered genealogical, archival research, and his wife Emilie, daughter of Charles Pictet.
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guidebooks and early sepia photographs, particularly those taken by Hiram Powers's son,
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in 1865. He surrounded it with studios for artists, including that of
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were readers), is also buried here; and likewise the Swiss historian
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who died in Florence, among them Swiss and Scandinavians, as well as
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Before 1827, non-Catholics who died in Florence were buried in the
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for an international and ecumenical cemetery, Russian and
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in a tomb he himself sculpted, Mary, the daughter of
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acquired land outside the medieval wall and gate of
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Florence, Italy

Florence, Italy
Evangelical
Piazzale Donatello
Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church
Protestants
expatriates
Eastern Orthodox Christians
cremated
Christian denominations
Old English Cemetery, Livorno
Jewish monumental cemetery, Florence
Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church
Porta a' Pinti
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Greek Orthodox
Giuseppe Poggi
Florence became capital of Italy
Michele Gordigiani
Elizabeth Barrett
Robert Browning
National Portrait Gallery

Swiss
Russians
Americans
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lord Leighton

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