Details

Subjects:

Citizenship -- Italy.
Citizenship.
Italy.
Ancona (Italy) -- History -- 15th century.

Form/Genre:

Legal documents.
Notarial documents.
Privileges (permissions)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Biography/History:

Magistrates of Ancona.

Summary:

A privilege of citizenship, dated Nov. 11, 1486, granted to Iacobus de Picculominibus de Castiglia de Aragonia by the Anziani of Ancona, due to his status as vicar general to the pope in nearby Montemarciano. Giacomo was nephew of Pope Pius II, brother of Andrea di Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini (see folder 58), Guido di Biagio di Carlo Piccolomini (see folder 26), and Francesco di Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini (later Pope Pius III). A wax seal (only remnants of wax visible) and additional signature were added June 7, 1487.

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:

Piccolomini di Castiglia e d'Aragona, Giacomo di Nanni Todeschini, addressee.
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner.
Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

OCLC:

614396196