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Santi Cosma e Damiano

Martyrdoms of IV the century came then chosen like protecting of the family of the Medici. The two siblings, second the legend professavano in the field of the medicine, lend free of charge their attendance. Since Damiano did not have heart to refuse the gift of three eggs from part of a patient, Cosimo for the disdain refused of being buried with the brother. Accused of witchcraft condemned from the proconsole roman Lisia, in the city of Aegean, fire, lapidazione and arrows they were not enough, they had to behead them. They were for divine participation buried together: it was tried in fact that Damiano accepted the gift of Palladia in order not to humiliate the woman. The reputation and the leggendaria wealth that the profile of the two figures determined, are above all diffused to east before to be chosen from the powerful family fiorentina. A parchment of 1293 attests works of building of the complex contemporary to the reconstruction of the nartece external of S. Abbondio, from which it was dependent. According to a tipologia diffused in this territory, the only classroom is covered to roof and the apse has the cap in masonry. In the semiwashbowl of the apse it dominates an eternal father in "almond", tipologia that follows one medieval custom. To modernize the figure it is modeled from the sure feature and the decoration to the inside of the almond, placed between cherubs. In the ' 500, for giving to new garment to the apse, a thin wall was put down on the circular wall, support of frescoes cinquecentesco hour conserved in the civic pinacoteca. Removed I fresco it and the support, is emerged one trecentesca composition remained hidden for beyond four centuries. Last in the course of sec the XVI in the hands of the Castiglioni family, divenne a private room, reason for which it frescoes to it were covered and the sventrato apse in order to open a balcony to you. From 1988 she was only finally subordinate to a providential restoration. The taken care of surveying which she has been subordinate, has revealed that the more ancient phase is from reporting to a structure to cruciform system and wide transetto, oriented East-West, and that a reorganization of XI the century carried the church to cover more or less it puts into effect it them surface. Before assuming a residential function, it had to be, perhaps for a short but intense period, a workshop in which bells were produced. Then memory of the vicissitudes has gotten lost that interested it, a lot that such dusk extends until the moment of its restoration.