PER DECRETO DEL COMUNE

IN QUESTE SUE CASE

IL SENATORE MARCHESE COSIMO RIDOLFI
NATO IL 28 NOVEMBRE 1794.

FONDÒ LA PRIMA SCUOLA DI ISTRUZIONE RECIPROCA AD OGNI RAZIONALE PERFEZIONAMENTO NELL’ARTE DEI CAMPI POSE LA DOTTRINA PROFONDA L’OPERA LE SOSTANZE CREANDO LA CELEBRE SCUOLA DI MELETO EBBE CATTEDRA DI AGRONOMIA NEL PISANO ATENEO

FU MINISTRO PER GLI AFFARI INTERNI NEL 1848 POI DELLA PUBBLICA ISTRUZIONE NEL GOVERNO TOSCANO CHE COMPIEVA L’ANNESSIONE NAZIONALE PRESEDÈ DALLA FONDAZIONE

LA CASSA CENTRALE DI RISPARMI IN FIRENZE PER ALTO ESEMPIO DI CIVILI VIRTU AMATO DALL’UNIVERSALE TERMINÒ NEL 5 MARZO 1865 LA VITA CONSACRATA TUTTA IN PRO DELLA SCIENZA E IN PUBBLICO BENEFICIO

The house where the politician and agronomist Cosimo Ridolfi (1794-1865) was born.

The house was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
By order of the municipality

in these houses of his

Senator Marquis Cosimo Ridolfi
Born November 28, 1794.

Founded the first school of mutual education for all rational perfection in the art of the fields, published the doctrine deepening the creation and the materials that make up the famous APPLE ORCHARD school, was the head of the agronomy department at Pisano University.

was Minister of the Interior in 1848 then of public education in the government of Tuscany which completed the national annexation
Chairman of the Foundation of the Central Savings Bank in Florence
The noble qualities of civic virtue loved by all ended March 5, 1865
The sacred life all for the sake of science and the public benefit