All of these monuments between the side chapels were commemorate famous Florentines. Most of them were actually buried there as well.
Gino Capponi was an historian and statesman from a very famous and old Florentine family. Plus, Sarah and I walk on the street bearing his name every time we go to her school.
Gioachino Rossini (on the left)was the composer famous for The Barber of Seville.
Giorgio Vasari was a painter and architect who worked on the Duomo and the Palazzo Vecchio.
Lorenzo Ghiberti was a famous sculptor who created the Gates of Paradise on the Baptistery doors in Florence. His relative (brother? I can't remember) Vittorio is there too.
Marconi, of course, developed the world's first commercial system of radio communication.
Galileo Galilei's there.
See.
Dante isn't actually there. He was buried in Ravenna.
Michelangelo's there too.
See.
I don't think that Leonardo da Vinci is actually there. I think there would have been a bigger monument if he was.
This just in! He was actually buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert. Wherever that is.
Apparently Enrico Fermi was there too, but I didn't see him. I saw enough Italians for one day.
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