Interior of Santa Croce Florence Italy

The Basilica became popular with Florentines as a place of worship and patronage and it became customary for greatly honoured Florentines to be buried or commemorated there. Some were in chapels "owned" by wealthy families such as the Bardi and Peruzzi. As time progressed, space was also granted to notable Italians from elsewhere. For 500 years monuments were erected in the church including those to:

Leon Battista Alberti (15th century architect and artistic theorist)
Vittorio Alfieri (18th century poet and dramatist)
Eugenio Barsanti (co-inventor of the internal combustion engine)
Lorenzo Bartolini (19th century sculptor)
Julie Clary, wife of Joseph Bonaparte, and their daughter Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte
Leonardo Bruni (15th century chancellor of the Republic, scholar and historian)
Dante (actually buried in Ravenna)
Ugo Foscolo (19th century poet)
Galileo Galilei
Giovanni Gentile (20th century philosopher)
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Vittorio Ghiberti
Niccolò Machiavelli by Innocenzo Spinazzi
Carlo Marsuppini (15th century chancellor of the Republic)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Raffaello Morgheni (19th century engraver)
Gioacchino Rossini
Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (wife of Charles Edward Stuart)
Guglielmo Marconi
Enrico Fermi

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[IlRezzonico]

Enrico Fermi is buried here I think? 

[jshadow54]

nice vid :)