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Benvenuti, Bernardo di Cino di Bartolino di Chiaro di Benvenuto (de'Nobili)

Description

Bernardo di Cino Benvenuti received the arms with the fleur-de-lis and the rank of noble on 25 May 1379 after which time the family used the surname Nobili. Despite much time spent in Paris as a merchant of pearls and precious stones (Gordon 2022, p. 206), Bernardo was a generous benefactor to the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, giving funds in support of a tabernacle for the church's high altar, a grill for the church, and was one of several donors to support construction of a new infirmary.

Birth Family Benvenuti
Gender male
Age at Death unknown
Database ID 14680

Life Dates

1388
testament
between April 29th and August 28th, 1398 a
death

Employments (2 total)

Mercatante (a great merchant, although few of the great commercial houses actually identified themselves as such)
mercante (merchant, generically, mercator)

Memorials (3 total)

Angeli 01.2 Cappella maggiore
August 1375
b
Angeli 16 Cappella di San Giacomo de Nobili
1387 to 1388
Angeli 16 Cappella di San Giacomo de Nobili
1388 to circa 1764 (date is approximate)
c

Related Groups (1 total)

Nobili

Locations (1 total)

Paris, France death
between April 29th and August 28th, 1398

Sources (4 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 625, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 1324-1325
ASF, Manoscritti, 251, Priorista Mariani IV fol. 805v
ASF, Manoscritti, 519, Carte Mariani Dei vol. III, ins. 27 (Nobili)
D. Herlihy et al., Online Tratte rec. 21830, 21819, 21678, 21832, 21831, 21825, 21827, 21822, 21821, 21829, 21828, 301091, 21826, 21824, 21823, 21833, 21820

Notes

  • [a] Bernardo di Cino di Bartolino was drawn for office seventeen times between 1389 and 1410, but he was never seated due to his extended absences from Florence through April 28th, 1398 and his death a few months later when he was drawn again on August 29th and registered as deceased.
  • [b] Bernardo di Cino Benvenuti de'Nobili donated 400 florins to the rebuilding of the high altar to provide a ciborium (tabernacolo) and an iron gate for the choir. The monks' Registro Nuovo records that these gifts were for the remediation of his soul (Bent, 1993, p. 648, doc. 36)
  • [c] Portraits of the patron Bernardo de'Nobili and his wife Piera, along with eight of their children, appear in the chapel's altarpiece predella as kneeling donors. His name was also in the painting's inscription.