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Title

Libro del signor capitano di Fivizzano nel quale sono registrate ricevute, suppliche e lettere di diversi anni

Authors

• Arrigucci, Federico

Other related names

• Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574, recipient
• Torelli, Lelio, 1489-1576, compiler

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1510
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944891183503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320365953
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4489118

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with a few words in Latin

Origin

Date

1548-1549

Place

Fivizzano

Summary

Copies of miscellaneous items, mostly suppliche (petitions), legal documents and some letters received and collected by Giovanni Arrigucci, officer in Fivizzano, Massa Carrara, north of Florence. Most documents are originally addressed to Cosimo I de' Medici, but bear the name of Giovanni Arrigucci (sometimes referred to as capitano) and Lelio Torelli (referred to as auditore), officer, lawyer and investigating judge of the Grand-duchy of Tuscany. Torelli and Arrigucci collected the letters of citizens who had requested the help of the grand-duke to mediate and resolve small personal conflicts (e.g. pending debts and payments; complaints about neighbors, co-workers or family members; and tax-related decisions considered unfair), perhaps to select the more complicated cases which were to appear before Cosimo I. For most documents, the names of the counterparts are present, usually with a short and sometimes confused description of the problem which prompted the offended party to request for help from the grand-duke. In certain cases, the documents also contain annotations and marginalia in a different hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from cover.
   
• Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.
   

Watermark

Unidentified watermark containing a flower or a bud, with a straight stem and two small leaves.

Extent

144 leaves : 282 x 211 mm. bound to 288 x 213 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, 144; [i], 1-113, [114-143], contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (f. 120-143 are blank).

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum, no. 145 on spine; the heading Libro del signor capitano di Fivizzano nel quale sono registrate ricevute, suppliche e lettere di diversi anni, on upper cover; lower cover wraps around upper cover with a leather tie; decorative leatherwork on spine.

Script

Written in a cursive script, by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Law--Italy--History--16th century--Sources
• Lawyers--Italy--Florence--History--16th century
• Dispute resolution (Law)--Italy--Florence--History

Genres

• Codices
• Petitions
• Legal documents
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Legal

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