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'''Egisto Bracci''' ([[Florence]], January 1, 1830 &ndash; August, 1909) was an [[Italy|Italian]] architect, active mainly in Florence, and who became resident professor of architecture at the [[Academy of Fine Arts of Florence]] in 1879.<ref>[http://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>

'''Egisto Bracci''' ([[Florence]], January 1, 1830 &ndash; August, 1909) was an [[Italy|Italian]] architect, active mainly in Florence, and who became resident professor of architecture at the [[Academy of Fine Arts of Florence]] in 1879.<ref>[http://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 architect [[Giovan Battista Silvestri]] 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 war of independence, but had to withdraw when he became ill. He returned to Florence, where he worked in 1854 in the care of those afflicted during a [[cholera]] epidemi. Working independently he designed what is now the Palazzo Levi, for the Baron of Vaguonville at [[Piazza Vittorio Veneto]]. 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> 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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