Dieci di Libertà e Pace (Ten of Liberty and Peace)
A ten-man Florentine magistracy responsible for military and foreign affairs and the defense of the Republic against internal and external threats.
Other
1428
console, Arte degli Oliandoli e Pizzicagnoli (consul, Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. Grain and fodder dealers (biadaiuoli) were also associated with this guild.
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.
Online Tratte Code: 8
Tre Maggiori
May 1st, 1435 to June 30th, 1435
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>).
Online Tratte Code: 16
Tre Maggiori
May 7th, 1436 to September 6th, 1436
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.
Online Tratte Code: 12
Tre Maggiori
June 15th, 1437 to September 14th, 1437
console, Arte degli Oliandoli e Pizzicagnoli (consul, Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. Grain and fodder dealers (biadaiuoli) were also associated with this guild.
Online Tratte Code: 35
Minor Guild
May 1st, 1438 to August 31st, 1438
console, Arte degli Oliandoli e Pizzicagnoli (consul, Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. Grain and fodder dealers (biadaiuoli) were also associated with this guild.
Online Tratte Code: 35
Minor Guild
January 1st, 1440 to April 30th, 1440
priore (prior)
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.
Online Tratte Code: 8
Tre Maggiori
September 1st, 1442 to October 31st, 1442
console, Arte degli Oliandoli e Pizzicagnoli (consul, Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. Grain and fodder dealers (biadaiuoli) were also associated with this guild.
Online Tratte Code: 35
Minor Guild
September 1st, 1442 to December 31st, 1442
console, Arte degli Oliandoli e Pizzicagnoli (consul, Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Oil Dealers and Sausage-and-Cheese Sellers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. Grain and fodder dealers (biadaiuoli) were also associated with this guild.
Online Tratte Code: 35
Minor Guild
May 1st, 1443 to August 31st, 1443
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>).
Online Tratte Code: 16
Tre Maggiori
September 7th, 1445 to January 6th, 1446
priore (prior)
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.
Citizens of Florence could claim membership in a gonfalone other than where they lived for purposes of taxation and political sortition, usually that of their father or other ancestor and related to where the family traditionally held its highest-value properties. The 1427 catasto contains numerous examples of a declared residence (casa per abitazione) in a parish not physically located in the gonfalone from which the tax declaration was made. Residence is "surmised" when extrapolated from political service or tax records that do not indicate the parish of residence and "documented" when the physical location of a house is known.
1427
documented
information found in sepoltuario, tomb inscription, burial, and/or other records
[a] Francesco gave his age as 35 in his 1427 catasto declaration, which would render a birth year of 1392. In 1429 he provided the date September 2nd, 1389 to tratte officials.
[b] Francesco di Bernardo was registered as dead when drawn for the Twelve for the S. Croce quarter on March 12th, 1452.
[c] If Francesco di Bindo Galluzzi is the same person as Francesco di Bernardo Galluzzi, then the latter held this office in 1432.
[d] Francesco and his brother Giovanni were living in Borgo Allegri in the parish of Sant'Ambrogio at the time of their 1427 catasto declaration.
