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piazza angelio

Piazza Angelio

This piazza, once known as Piazza Aiaccia, owes its present name to two buildings built by the Angeli family, who were reknown for producing poets, writers, prelates and soldiers. The most famous of these, Pietro Angeli (1512-1573), also known by his nickname “Bargeo”, was a poet, a soldier and a professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Pisa.

One of the Angeli buildings on this piazza was formerly the home of the journalist, writer and typographer Pietro Groppi (1831 – 1908), who wrote a biography of Pietro Angelio and founded the weekly newspaper “The Serchio Echo” and which now houses the barganews and barga jazz offices and the barganews book exchange.

Restoration work on the palazzo can be seen here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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