Details

Subjects:

Soderini, Piero, 1452-1522.
Excommunication -- Catholic Church.
Real property -- Italy.
Real property.
Italy.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Siena (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Judgment pronounced by Francesco di Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini, then a cardinal, later Pope Pius III, in the name of the Catholic Church and Pope Alexander VI summoning the help of all authorities - both ecclesiastic and secular - in the republics of Florence and Siena. A portion of the document is dedicated to listing these authorities, beginning with Piero (here written Pietro) Soderini, gonfaloniere of Florence. The document also condemns 5 Florentine citizens for disobeying letters of excommunication, and deprives them of their lands. One of the people mentioned in the document is a goldsmith named Michelangelus. Document continues on verso.

Notes:

This oversize item is stored in a map drawer.

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:

Alexander VI, Pope, 1431-1503.
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

489140410