Sant'Andrea in Percussina
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Sant'Andrea in Percussina | |
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  Sant'Andrea in Percussina Location of Sant'Andrea in Percussina in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 43°40′58″N 11°11′50″E / 43.68278°N 11.19722°E | |
| Country | Italy |
| Comune | San Casciano Val di Pesa |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Sant'Andrea in Percussina is a frazione of San Casciano Val di Pesa in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.[1] The village is located between San Casciano Val di Pesa and Florence.[1][a] Niccolò Machiavelli wrote his treatise The Prince at his family home here, the Albergaccio, where he lived when in exile.[1][2][3][4] A small museum is dedicated to the great writer; the villa, now Villa Bossi-Pucci, stands close by the Hostel where Machiavelli used to "let off steam".[1][5]
Also in the village is its namesake church, Saint Andrew in English.[6] Nearby is the thirteenth-century church of San Bartolomeo in Faltignano. This once possessed a painting on wood, depicting Saint Andrew, by the school of Agnolo Gaddi; and a Madonna enthroned and saints attributed to the school of Filippino Lippi, today in the church of Chiesa nuova Val di Pesa.[7] Not far from Sant'Andrea in Percussina, just outside Spedaletto, is the twelfth-century church of Santa Maria a Casavecchia, which contains a Della Robbia polychrome altarpiece in terracotta.[b] Also nearby is the Florence American Cemetery.[8]
