The Badia and Dante Filippino Lippi--Buffalmacco--Mino da Fiesole--The Dante quarter--Dante and Beatrice--Monna Tessa--Gemma Donati--Dante in exile--Dante memorials in Florence--The Torre della Castagna--The Borgo degli Albizzi and the old palaces--S.

Ambrogio--Mino's tabernacle--Wayside masterpieces--S.

Egidio.
Opposite the Bargello is a church with a very beautiful doorway designed by Benedetto da Rovezzano.

This church is known as the Badia, and its delicate spire is a joy in the landscape from every point of vantage.

The Badia is very ancient, but the restorers have been busy and little of Arnolfo's thirteenth-century work is left.