Cimitero Evangelico agli Allori

The Cimitero Evangelico agli Allori ("The Evangelical Cemetery at Laurels") is located in Florence, Italy, between 'Due Strade' and Galluzzo.

History[edit]

The small cemetery was opened in 1877 when the non-Catholic communities of Florence could no longer bury their dead in the English Cemetery in Piazzale Donatello. It is named after the Allori farm where it was located.

Born as a Protestant cemetery, it is now nonsectarian and hosts people of all Christian denominations, as well as other religions (including Jews and Muslims) and non-believers.

The cemetery became newsworthy in 2006 when the writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci was buried there alongside her family. A stone memorial to Alexandros Panagoulis, her companion, is also present.

Notable burials[edit]

Harold Acton – British writer, Lot: LOG-I-43
William Acton – British painter, Lot: LOG-I-43
Gisela von Arnim Grimm — German fabulist and writer
Thomas Ball – American sculptor, worked with Hiram Powers and William Couper
Arnold Böcklin – Swiss painter, Lot: A-VII-2
Elizabeth Boott – American painter, Frank Duveneck's wife, Lot: R-III-27
Lewis Einstein - American diplomat, writer and art collector
Oriana Fallaci – Italian writer, Lot: I-XV-10
Corrado Feroci (Silpa Bhirasri) – Italian sculptor, Lot: C-II-9
Larkin Goldsmith Mead – American sculptor, Lot: H-VI-11
Sir John Pope-Hennessy – British art historian, Lot: T/A-I-13
John Louis Herbert Hinkler – Australian aviator, Lot: Q-I-23
Herbert Percy Horne – British art collector, Lot: E-V-25
Alice Keppel – British mistress of Edward VII and great-grandmother of Queen Camilla.
Emily Hoggins Kossuth – Ferenc Kossuth's wife, Lot: A-VIII-1
Violet Page (Vernon Lee) – British writer
Charles Loeser – Art historian, Lot: A-X-23
Roberto Longhi – Italian art historian, Lot: N-II-9
Tjaarke Maas – Dutch artist
Vasco Magrini [it] – Italian aviator, Lot: A-VIII-13
Teodorico Pietrocola Rossetti [it] – Italian poet, Lot: A-II-4
Howard Pyle – American illustrator, Columbarium
Leonardo Savioli [it] – Italian architect, Lot: K-III-21
Truman Seymour – American Civil War general and watercolor artist
Osbert Sitwell – British writer
Hans-Joachim Staude [de; it] – German painter, Lot: I-XI-27
Eggert Stefánsson [is] – Icelandic writer and singer
Frederick Stibbert – Italian British art collector, A-X-25
Ernesto Michahelles (Thayaht) – Italian artist, Lot: E-V-22
Violet Trefusis – English and French writer, Lot: I-VIII-44
Reginald Turner (writer) – British writer and friend of Oscar Wilde
Mary Rogers Williams – American artist