Baailica di San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
This was the Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini—“Saint John of the Florentines,” dedicated to St. John the Baptist, protector of Florence—and it was designed specifically for the Florentine community in Rome. The push began when Leo X de’ Medici (Pope from 1513 to 1521) initiated an architectural competition in 1518 on the site of the old church of San Pantaleo, with designs submitted by names like Baldassare Peruzzi, Jacopo Sansovino, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and Raphael. Sansovino won, but construction was carried out by Sangallo and Giacomo della Porta, while Michelangelo later proposed a centralised plan in 1559 at Cosimo I de’ Medici’s request. The main building work ran from 1583 to 1602 under della Porta, then Carlo Maderno took over from 1602 to 1620 for the dome and main body—while the façade wasn’t finished until 1734. …
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