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Title

Acciaiuoli family correspondence

Authors

• Acciaiuoli family
• Acciaiuoli, Niccolò, 1310-1365
• Acciaiuoli, Niccolò
• Acciaiuoli, Donato
• Acciaiuoli, Jacopo di Donato
• Acciaiuoli, Giovanni
• Medici, Alessandro de'
• Ricci, Giovanni de'
• Acciaiuoli, Benedetto
• Acciaiuoli, Lorenzo
• Innocent VII, Pope, 1336-1406

Other related names

• Tuscany (Grand Duchy). Archivio publico, recipient

Call number

Ms. Coll. 197
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924866373503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63613811
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486637

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Italian, with some letters to Donato Acciaiuoli in Latin

Summary

Correspondence of several generations of the Acciaiuoli family of Florence, concerning church and secular politics as well as family affairs. Numerous letters show their strong relationship with the Papal States and with the Medici family, as well as with some other powerful aristocrats in Florence, Naples, and Ascoli.

Notes

• Written on various sizes of paper, some with remainders of seals.
   
• Water damage to some items.
   

Extent

48 items (51 leaves) :

Support

Paper.

Provenance

• Letters contained in folders 1-34, purchased, 1957.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Italian--14th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 14th century
• 15th century
• 16th century
• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. Folder 1, 1r — Niccolo? Acciaiuoli to Jacopo di Donato and Simone di Lione Acciaiuoli on business affairs (1342)
• fol. Folder 2, 1r — Niccolo? Acciaiuoli to Jacopo di Donato Acciaiuoli and Giovanni de' Ricci on cession of Prato to Florence and founding of Certosa del Galuzzo, (1349)
• fol. Folder 3, 1r — Niccolo? Acciaiuoli to Angelo Acciaiuoli, Jacopo di Donato Acciaiuoli and Giovanni Richi on Prato purchase (1351)
• fol. Folder 4, 1r — Niccolo? Acciaiuoli to same on the political situation resulting from arrival of Emperor Charles IV in Italy (1354)
• fol. Folder 5, 1r — Benedetto Acciaiuoli to Lorenzo Acciaiuoli referring to death of Lorenzo's daughter Margarita (ca. 1390)
• fol. Folder 5, 2r — Neri di Jacopo Acciaiolo to Giovanni Acciaiuoli on family affairs (1360)
• fol. Folder 6, 1r — Letters addressed to Donato Acciaiuoli (ca. 1384-1395)