Details

Subjects:

Ventimiglia, Guglielmo.
Ventimiglia, Francesco.
Ventimiglia, Gaspare.
Ventimiglia, Vincenzo.
Privileges and immunities -- Italy -- Sicily.
Inheritance and succession -- Italy.
Inheritance and succession.
Privileges and immunities.
Italy.
Pantelleria Island (Italy) -- History.
Italy -- Sicily.

Form/Genre:

Notarial documents.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Three documents concerning privileges of the Ventimiglia family of Sicily and Pantelleria.The first item, dated 1422, contains passages of the will of Francesco Ventimiglia, who leaves a considerable portion of his estate and titles to his son, Gaspare. The second document, is a later copy of the investiture of Guglielmo Ventimiglia dated 1408, who is granted the property of Lu Barchinu, probably in Sicily. The last item, written in 1587, concerns Vincenzo Ventimiglia, who acted as a treasurer for King Philip II of Spain.

Cited in:

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. 227 (Ms. Lea 397, Nos. 63-65).

Contributor:

Alfonso V, King of Aragon, 1396-1458.
Martin I, King of Aragon, 1356-1410.
Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598.

OCLC:

692415235