Details

Subjects:

Monte di pietà (Florence, Italy).
Arte della lana (Guild : Florence, Italy).
Merchants -- Italy.
Accounting -- Italy -- 16th century.
Textile industry -- Italy -- Early works to 1800.
Civil law -- Italy.
Civil law.
Textile industry.
Accounting.
Merchants.
Italy.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737.

Form/Genre:

Accounts.
Wills.
Receipts (financial records)
Financial documents.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Summary:

Collection of financial documents and correspondence pertaining to the affairs of the Detti family (Giovanbattista and Giammaria in particular) for the years 1578-1591. Folders 1-2 contain miscellaneous accounts (perhaps pages from different ledgers) of Giovanbattista Detti, as well as receipts for the payment of textile products. There is also one document concerning the will of Giovanbattista Tedaldi, for whom Giovanbattista Detti was executor. Giovanbattista Detti was not only a businessman, but also a magistrato, a high office in the Florentine administration, and a number of documents consist of correspondence from citizens asking for Giovanbattista's help with minor complaints such as postponing tax payments. Folders 3-6 contain documents, organized chronologically and covering the years 1583-1591 concerning Giammaria Detti, also a merchant and magistrato of the Florentine administration. Giammaria's documents are very similar to Giovanbattista's, with fewer accounts and more receipts for a variety of transactions, including sale and purchase of textile products and currency. Folder 7 contains documents related to the returns of transactions negotiated by Giammaria and Lucrezia Detti with the Monte di pietà of Florence. Folder 8 contains documents, mostly correspondence, addressed to the Signori magistrati Detti, Giammaria and Giovanbattista, concerning either requests for help or complaints about members of the guild of the lanaioli. The Detti were in fact heavily involved with the wool guild, and often stepped in to help settle during controversies between members of the guild. The family name is often written as Deti.

Notes:

Written on various sizes of paper, some with seals and remainders of seals.
Forms part of: Gondi-Medici Business Records.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1963.

Cited in:

Separated from collection described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (4), Library Chronicle 37 (1971), no. 1, p. 21 (Ms. Lea 550).
Separated from collection described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A (3), Library Chronicle 36 (1970), no. 2, p. 99 (Ms. Lea 497).

Contributor:

Detti, Lucrezia.
Detti, Giammaria.
Detti, Giovanbattista.

OCLC:

430835843