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Individuals

Pazzi, Andrea (messer) di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano di Ubertino

Birth Family Pazzi
Gender male
Age at Death 73
Database ID 539

Life Dates

circa 1372
 birth
1410
 marriage
October 19th, 1445
 death
October 20th, 1445 a
burial

Posts (8 total)

Office Government Date
Major Guild
September 1st, 1430 to December 31st, 1430
Mercanzia
July 9th, 1432 to September 30th, 1432
Tre Maggiori
December 15th, 1434 to March 14th, 1435
Major Guild
May 1st, 1439 to August 31st, 1439
Tre Maggiori
March 1st, 1440 to April 30th, 1440
Mercanzia
April 1st, 1442 to August 31st, 1442
Major Guild
January 1st, 1443 to April 30th, 1443
b Tre Maggiori
September 15th, 1445 to October 19th, 1445

Memorials (7 total)

S. Croce 136 tomb of messer Pazzino Pazzi and descendants
by 1441
 c
S. Croce cloister 003a Capitolo de' Pazzi
circa 1429 (date is approximate) to October 19th, 1445
 d
S. Croce cloister 003b cappella de' Pazzi
circa 1429 (date is approximate) to October 19th, 1445
 e
S. Croce cloister 003c tomb of Andrea Pazzi and his descendants
circa 1429 (date is approximate) to October 19th, 1445
 f
S. Croce cloister 003c tomb of Andrea Pazzi and his descendants
October 20th, 1445
 g
S. Croce cloister 139 arca of messer Francesco and messer Simone Pazzi, and the heirs of messer Francesco
by 1441
 h
S. Croce crypt 093 tomb of the sons of Littifredi de Pazzi
by 1441

Related Individuals (7 total)

son of Bardi, Costanza di Andrea di Gualtieri (uxor M. Guglielmo di Guidotto Pazzi)
son of Pazzi, Guglielmo (messer) di Guidotto di Giano di Ubertino di Gherardo (detto Guglielmino)
husband of Salviati, Caterina di M. Jacopo di Alamanno di M. Francesco di M. Lotto (uxor M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo Pazzi)
father of Pazzi, Albiera di M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano (uxor Lorenzo di Larione Ilarioni)
father of Pazzi, Antonio di M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano
father of Pazzi, Jacopo di M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano
father of Pazzi, Piero di M. Andrea di M. Guglielmo di Guidotto di Giano

Extended Family (116 total)

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Related Groups (1 total)

Arte dei Calimala

Locations (2 total)

S. Pier Maggiore, Chiavi, S. Giovanni, Florence death
October 19th, 1445
 i
S. Procolo (Chiavi), Chiavi, S. Giovanni, Florence
1427
 j

Sources (8 total)

ASF, Catasto, 1427 vol. 80, fol. 586–593v
Litta, Famiglie Celebre Italiane vol. 7 (Pazzi), tav. VI and VII
ASF, Manoscritti, Carte Dei vol. 409, ins. 52bis (Salviati), fol. 81
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) pp. 355, no. 3; 408, no. 93; 312, no. 136 and 430, no. 68
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439 fol. 1v, no. 37
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy) fol. 9, no. 93; 49v, no. 71; 71–71v
ASF, Manoscritti, 519, Carte Mariani Dei vol. 519/III, ins. 35 (Pazzi)
D. Herlihy et al., Online Tratte rec. 4975–84, 113218

Notes

  • [a] ASFi, Ufficiali, poi Magistrato della Grascia 4 (morti 1439–49), fol. 77 as cited by Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings. Penn State Press, 1993, p. 233n168.
  • [b] Messer Andrea di Guglielmino de'Pazzi was elected to the Twelve on September 12, 1445, but he did not finish his term, as recorded on October 19 by election officials from the quarter of San Giovanni.
  • [c] Howard Saalman postulated that Andrea was buried in the tomb dedicated to Pazzino Pazzi in the transept of Santa Croce, arguing that his new chapel "was just beginning to rise" when Andrea died on 19 October 1445. Given that gravedigger records report his burial in Santa Croce on the day after his death, Saalman argued that he was not buried in the worksite of his new chapel but rather in Pazzino's transept tomb.

    A sepoltuario record dated around 1440 or 1441, and copied in the sepoltuario of 1596, does indeed indicate that Andrea was known to the friars as the owner of burial rights in Pazzino's tomb, even though he was not a direct descendant but rather his third cousin three times removed, and thus was a sixth cousin of his great-grandson Poldo.

    Rights to a second Pazzi tomb in the crypt and dedicated to the sons of Littifredi d'Uguccione Pazzi were also listed as belonging to Andrea together with Poldo's sons Geri and Alamanno.

    A trio of Pazzi family tombs, an arca and two graves reserved for the descendants of fourth cousins messers Francesco di M. Pazzino and Simone di Ranieri de' Pazzi at the head of the cloister where Andrea would build his chapel, was not listed with any heirs, though it seems unlikely that burial rights did not pass to one or more other branches of the family when the lines of Francesco and Simone died out.

    In other words, Andrea certainly had the right to choose burial in the transept or the crypt, and very likely could have requested burial in the cloister arca as well. Instead, he opted to build a new chapter room for the friars, whose chancel would also serve as a family burial chapel. Andrea's chapel would be the first burial site installed in Santa Croce for members of Andrea's direct line stemming from Schiatta di Pazzo de'Pazzi. Descendants of Schiatta's brothers Ranieri and Uguccione were responsible for all other Pazzi memorials at the friary.

    See Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings (Penn State Press, 1993), 233–34.

    We thank Emma Iadanza for drawing our attention to this reference and for generously discussing her ongoing research into Andrea's chapel at Santa Croce and the broader context of Pazzi family patronage.
  • [d] After a fire damaged the eastern end of the south cloister at Santa Croce in 1423, by 1429 Andrea di Guglielmino de'Pazzi had offered to pay for a new chapter room (capitolo), whose chancel would also serve as a family chapel. Construction did not begin, however, until about 1443, and Andrea died in late 1445 without seeing much progress on his project.
  • [e] The chancel of the new chapter room was built to frame an altar and serve as his family's chapel. Construction did not begin, however, until about 1443, and Andrea died in late 1445 when little of his project had been completed.
  • [f] Though destroyed after the 1478 Pazzi Conspiracy, a family tomb was part of the original commission for the Pazzi-sponsored chapter room and accompanying chapel.
  • [g] While Saalman may be right that Andrea was first buried in the transept tomb of Pazzino Pazzi, it is nevertheless possible, and even likely, that he was buried in his chosen position from the start, even if his chapel's construction had not progressed much. Clues to this interpretation may be found in the testament of his son Antonio, drawn up in 1451, in which he requested burial in the tomb "ordered and being assembled for the burial of the body of his deceased father" (in sepulcro ordinato et compilando pro sepultura corporis che [sic] olim domini Andrea [sic] patris sui). While Saalman accepted Antonio's burial in the chapel as possible, the text of his 1451 testament suggests that his father's grave had already been established and that his father had been buried in it, even as its monument was not yet complete.

    Saalman also suggested that the burial of Antonio's brother Piero in 1465 was "probably" in the chapel, given that in 1464, their brother Jacopo in his own testament had requested burial in the chapter house built by his father. Jacopo would not die, however, until his execution on 28 April 1478 after the failed Pazzi Conspiracy. He is known to have been buried in the chapel in accordance with his testamentary wishes, but his corpse was disinterred soon thereafter on 15 May and reburied along the walls of the city outside the Porta alla Croce, before being exhumed again two days later and thrown into the Arno River.

    See Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings (Penn State Press, 1993), 233–34.

    We thank Emma Iadanza for drawing our attention to this reference and for generously discussing her ongoing research into the chapel and the broader context of Pazzi family patronage.
  • [h] The sepoltuario of 1596, followed by Stefano Rosselli, noted that Andrea di M. Guglielmo de'Pazzi had rights to two Pazzi family tombs: a grave marked in the crypt and reserved for the heirs of Littifredi d'Uguccione di Ranieri de' Pazzi and a floor slab in the south transept honoring messer Pazzino di M. Jacopo de'Pazzi. Andrea is noted as the sole heir of the latter, while the former is documented as belonging to him and his distant cousins, the brothers Geri and Alamanno di Poldo de'Pazzi. A trio of family tombs in the cloister are listed as belonging to Michele de'Pazzi, who died in 1348, leaving no heirs. It thus seems likely that Andrea and/or his cousins also had rights to Michele's tomb, but it is odd that none of the sepoltuari indicate their ownership.
  • [i] Burial records in the Grascia morti indicate that Andrea was living in the parish of S. Pier Maggiore at the time of his death, while he was buried instead at the Franciscan friary of Santa Croce.
  • [j] In 1427, Andrea declared his household in the canto de' Pazzi in the parish of San Procolo. ASFi, Catasto, 80, fol. 586.