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{{Short description|Italian architect, active mainly in Florence}}

'''Egisto Bracci''' (1 January 1830 in [[Florence]] &ndash; August 1909) was an Italian architect, active mainly in Florence, who became resident professor of architecture at the [[Academy of Fine Arts of Florence]] in 1879.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''], by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 74.</ref>

He was a colleague of [[Dario Guidotti]] in early education; by age 16, he was apprenticed to the studio of the Sienese architect [[Giovan Battista Silvestri]] (1796-1873), and then with [[Enrico Presenti]]. He worked on projects to decorate the stations of the railroad route of [[Montevarchi]]-[[Arezzo]] and the mines of Tana. Afterward he worked with engineer Del Noce, who was transforming the Palazzo Paggeschi, the Hôtel della Pace in Piazza Manin (now [[Piazza Ognissanti]]). He also worked on the refurbishing of the inn, now Albergo Montebello.

He became a volunteer in the first[[First Italian warWar of independenceIndependence]], but had to withdraw when he became ill. He returned to Florence, where he worked until 1854 to care for those afflicted during a [[cholera]] epidemic. Working independently, he designed what is now the Palazzo Levi for the Baron of Vaguonville at [[Piazza Vittorio Veneto]]{{where|date=July 2017}}. He also designed the stables for the banchiere Du Fresne in the fondaci di Santo Spirito<ref>[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/egisto-bracci_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Entry in Treccani Encyclopedia], Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 13 (1971)

by Marco Dezzi Bardeschi.</ref> and the Palazzo of [[Ernesto Levi]] in [[Piazza Indipendenza]], as well as other buildings for the Levi family.<ref>Including the villino Levi in San Domenico di Fiesole.</ref> He designed the Palazzo Sariette in via Calzaioli. Later in life, he was knighted by the [[Kingdom of Italy]].

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