Details

Subjects:

Real property -- Italy.
Real property.
Italy.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 16th century.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Biography/History:

Son of Pandolfo Petrucci, tyrant of Siena. In early April, 1516, Alfonso's brothers Borghese (the successor of Pandolfo Petrucci) and Fabio (who was still a minor at that point) had given Alfonso full power for the liquidation of the landed property belonging to the inheritance from their father. Shortly before the time this document was written, Alfonso gave this power to a gentleman in his retinue named Marcello de Gazzaronis, a knight of the order of St. John of Jerusalem.

Summary:

A set of instructions from Cardinal Alfonso Petrucci regarding his land and other properties in and around Siena, dated April 21, 1516. No apparent involvement of the Piccolomini family.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of ms. 22925).

Cited in:

From collection described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement A (2). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 32-33 (Ms. Lea 447).

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

475058434