Details

Subjects:

Petrucci, Pandolfo, 1452-1512.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Italy.
Real property -- Italy.
Real property.
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:

Public instrument by Cardinal Alfonso Petrucci referring to the estate of his father, Pandolfo Petrucci, dated April 21, 1516.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Frederick North, Earl of Guilford, and Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of ms. 6067).

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), p. 163 (Ms. Lea 71).

Contributor:

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

475063672