Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence

Santa Maria degli Angeli, detail of the etched map of Florence by Stefano Buonsignori, printed in 1594, (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence)
Brunelleschi's Rotunda

Santa Maria degli Angeli (St. Mary of the Angels) is the former church of a now-defunct monastery of that name in Florence, Italy. It belonged to the Camaldolese order, which was a reformed branch of the Benedictines. The order is based on the hermitage which was founded near Arezzo in 1012 by the hermit St. Romuald at Camaldoli, hence the name. Very little of the medieval building exists today.