Individuals

Bernardo di Cinozzo (purgatore)

Description

It seems likely that the bleacher (purgatore) Bernardo di Cinozzo who appears in the 1427 catasto in the parish of San Simone is the same Bernardo di Cinozzo purgatore cited as receiving possession of a tomb in the north cemetery at Santa Croce prior to 1439.

Gender	male
Age at Death	unknown
Database ID	2017

Life Dates

circa 1377 a

birth

Employments (1 total)

purgatore (bleacher, one who cleaned and washed raw wool prior to spinning; textile worker who cleans the wool of all oily residue before dyeing)

1420s

Memorials (2 total)

S. Croce cemetery 020.1 ser Rinuccio di Stracciabende		before 1439
S. Croce cemetery 020.2 Bernardo di Cinozzo purgatore b		through the 1770s

Locations (1 total)

Bue, S. Croce, Florence

Sources (3 total)

ASF, Catasto, 1427	vol. 69, fol. 495
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 7v, no. 20
D. Herlihy et al., Online Catasto of 1427	rec. 50003565

Notes

[a] Bernardo gave his age as 50 in his 1427 catasto declaration.
[b] Bernardo di Cinozzo purgatore certainly owned the old Stracciabende tomb before 1439, and it is likely that when he took possession, he removed reference to the former honoree. Curiously, Stefano Rosselli noted arms that were morphologically the same as those of the Stracciabende, but with different colors – seemingly red where the former was gold and white where it was blue. Could Bernardo have reused Rinuccio Stracciabende's sculpted arms but painted them to create a new family stemma for himself? Unfortunately the inscription was illegible by Rosselli's day making it difficult to know what, if anything, Bernardo did to the tomb after receiving rights to use it.