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Fontana del Bacchino

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Fontana del Bacchino (Boboli) valerio cioli 03
Fontana del Bacchino (Boboli) valerio cioli 03

Fontana del Bacchino is an Italian Renaissance sculpture of 1560 by Valerio Cioli (1529-1599) in the Boboli Gardens in Florence featuring a statue in the likeness of the famed dwarf buffoon from the court of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Nano Morgante modeled after Bacchus and riding a tortoise. In 1572 the statue was turned into a fountain.

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Fontana del Bacchino
Via dei Barbadori, Florence Quartiere 1

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Via dei Barbadori
50125 Florence, Quartiere 1
Tuscany, Italy
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