Individuals

Segni, Segna (ser) (da Rignana)

Description

Ser Segna da Rignana is likely the notary identified by Giuseppe Mastursi as "Buoninsegna di Cambio da Rignano." Some documents written by a ser Boninsegna or one of his sons are catalogued with the toponym da Rignana while others have been transcribed as da Rignano, even when the document clearly says the former, as in ASFi, Diplomatico, 1321 Gennaio 20, Archivio Generale dei Contratti (ser Boninsegna); 1312 Settembre 11, Riformagioni (ser Guccio di ser Boninsegna); or 1324 Aprile 23, Polverini (acquisto) (ser Bonaiuto di ser Boninsegna). Rignano nel Valdarno is about 22 km to the east of Florence while Rignana is about 37 km to the south towards Poggibonsi, where the Segni family lived in the thirteenth century. Why ser Segna chose to use a nickname and no patronym on his memorial is difficult to explain, but it seems unlikely that there were two notaries of nearly the same name from the hamlet of Rignana working in Florence in the early fourteenth century.