console, Arte del Cambio (consul, Bankers and Money Changers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Bankers and Money Changers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September.
Online Tratte Code: 23
Major Guild
January 1st, 1349 to April 30th, 1349
buonuomo (good man (Twelve))
A member of one of the two primary advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>) known as the Buonuomini. They discussed legislation in consultation with the Signoria, and after 1321 their number was standardized at twelve with two representatives from each <i>sestiere</i>; after 1343, three from each quarter.
Together with the <i>gonfaloniere di giustizia</i> the priors constituted the Signoria, Florence's principal executive magistracy. Legislation was initiated by the Signoria in consultation with the two advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>). Their number changed over time but was established at eight after 1343, with two representatives per quarter. The officeholders, collectively known as <i>signori</i>, were assisted by a notary (<i>notaio della Signoria</i>). Serving in the priorate was the highest honor a family could achieve in Republican Florence.
gonfaloniere di Compagnia (company standard-bearer (Nineteen/Sixteen))
A standard-bearer of the urban militia who also served on one of the two primary advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>) of the Signoria. From around 1304, nineteen <i>gonfalonieri di Compagnia</i> were drawn from the city’s six <i>sestieri</i>. Following the reorganization of 1343, their number was reduced to sixteen, one from each <i>gonfalone</i> of the four new quarters, and their <i>collegio</i> became known as the Sixteen (<i>Sedici</i>).
console, Arte del Cambio (consul, Bankers and Money Changers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Bankers and Money Changers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September.
Online Tratte Code: 23
Major Guild
January 1st, 1359 to April 30th, 1359
Dieci di Pisa (Ten of Pisa)
A member of a ten-man Florentine magistracy established to oversee affairs relating to Pisa.
Other
1364
buonuomo (good man (Twelve))
A member of one of the two primary advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>) known as the Buonuomini. They discussed legislation in consultation with the Signoria, and after 1321 their number was standardized at twelve with two representatives from each <i>sestiere</i>; after 1343, three from each quarter.
Gonfaloniere di Giustizia (Standard-bearer of Justice)
Established in 1293, the Standard-bearer of Justice was the highest-ranking magistrate in the Signoria. Like all officers in the Tre Maggiori, he had to be a guild member in good standing but could be elected from any <i>sestiere</i> or quarter.
[a] Piero was elected to represent the Santo Spirito quarter to the Dodici buonuomini on December 11th, 1352.
[b] Piero was elected for the first time to the priorate on April 28th, 1355.
[c] Piero was elected on August 29th, 1356 to represent the Nicchio gonfalone.
[d] Piero was elected to represent the Santo Spirito quarter to the Dodici buonuomini again on December 12th, 1366
[e] Piero Guicciardini was elected Gonfaloniere di Giustizia on October 29th, 1367
[f] Piero's death date was rendered according to the old Florentine calendar in his tomb's inscription. He likely was buried on or slightly after March 22nd, 1370 with the tomb slab dating shortly thereafter.
[g] messer Piero spent his early career in Chiarenza, Morea, and Naples, but his permanent residence was in the parish where he endowed a family chapel and tomb.
