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Pandolfini, Giannozzo (messer) di M. Agnolo di Filippo di S. Giovanni di S. Giacomo

Description

Despite his title and elite status, messer Giannozzo Pandolfini stipulated in his testament that he wanted to be honored and buried as a private citizen, that is not with all the funereal pomp and privileges to which knights were entitled. He also asked for burial in his ancestral tomb, though he did stipulate that his heirs could choose another grave if it seemed more appropriate. Messer Giannozzo was certainly buried in his grandfather's tomb, for it was the only family sepulcher in the Badia at the time of his death on November 19th, 1456. Whether his bones were removed to the splendid wall tomb installed in the Badia's north wall by May 1467 is not known.

Birth Family Pandolfini
Gender male
Age at Death 60
Database ID 6947

Life Dates

February 12th, 1396
birth
1420
marriage
October 29th, 1456
testament
November 19th, 1456 a
death

Posts (8 total)

Office Government Date
Tre Maggiori
September 15th, 1433 to December 14th, 1433 b
Major Guild
October 30th, 1437 to December 31st, 1437 c
Mercanzia
January 1st, 1438 to March 31st, 1438
Mercanzia
June 20th, 1439 to August 31st, 1439
Tre Maggiori
July 1st, 1440 to August 31st, 1440 d
Major Guild
January 1st, 1442 to April 30th, 1442
Tre Maggiori
March 15th, 1443 to June 14th, 1443 e
Tre Maggiori
November 1st, 1448 to December 31st, 1448

Memorials (3 total)

Badia 007 memorial to M. Giannozzo Pandolfini
from about May 1467 to the present f
Badia 041 monumento Filippo di S. Giovanni Pandolfini
1446 to November 19th, 1456
g
Badia 041 monumento Filippo di S. Giovanni Pandolfini
November 20th, 1456
h

Extended Family (173 total)

Siblings
Children in law
Siblings in law
Grandparents
Great grandparents
Great great grandparents
Aunts and uncles
Great aunts and uncles
Grandchildren
Great grandchildren
Great great grandchildren
Nieces and nephews
Great nieces and nephews
Great great nieces and nephews
First cousins
Second cousins
First cousins once removed
First cousins twice removed

Related Groups (1 total)

Arte della Seta
circa 1430 (date is approximate) to November 19th, 1456 (year is approximate)

Locations (1 total)

S. Procolo (Chiavi), Chiavi, S. Giovanni, Florence
February 12th, 1396 to November 19th, 1456
i

Sources (6 total)

ASF, Arte dei medici e speziali, Registro di Morti vol. 244, fol. 117
ASFi, Atti di emancipazione pp. 111 (vol. 5, fol. 65)
ASF, Catasto, 1427 vol. 80, fol. 38
ASF, Manoscritti, 519, Carte Mariani Dei vol. III, ins. 34, fol. 1
D. Herlihy et al., Online Tratte rec. 408693, 48011, 48012, 48015, 48013, 48016, 48014, 117926, 48017, 48018, 117927
ASF, Ufficiali poi magistrato della Grascia, Morti j vol. 188, fols. 26v (a son), 82 (Maria), and 93v (a daughter)

Notes

  • [a] Giannozzo's tomb inscription records his day of death. Gravedigger records indicate he was buried the next day.
  • [b] He was elected as Giannozzo d'Agnolo di Filippo di S. Giovanni, with no surname, for the S. Giovanni quarter from a 1391 purse.
  • [c] He was elected October 30th, 1437 to fill out the term as Giannozzo d'Agnolo di Filippo di S. Giovanni, no surname, from the 1434 purse.
  • [d] Giannozzo was elected to the priorate on June 28th, 1440, for the S. Giovanni quarter from the 1439 purse that included his surname for the first time.
  • [e] The online tratte recorded Giannozzo d'Agnolo Pandolfini with a grandfather's name of Salvestro, rather than Filippo, but this was likely a transcription error.
  • [f] Antonio di Meo da Settignano had completed the tomb of Giannozzo Pandolfini by May 1467, when appraisers were appointed to assess its value. For the contract see Louis A. Waldman, “The Patronage of a Favorite of Leo X: Cardinal Niccolò Pandolfini, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio and the Unfinished Tomb by Baccio Da Montelupo.” Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 48, no. 1/2 (2004): 105–28, esp. pp. 116, 127-28.
  • [g] Though his father Agnolo installed and was buried in a tomb in S. Martino a Gangalandi, Giannozzo and his brother Carlo would have received rights to the Badia tomb.
  • [h] In his testament of 29 October 1456, Giannozzo requested burial in his grandfather's tomb at the foot of the high altar stairs or in another grave if his heirs found that "more appropriate." His sons Pandolfo and Pierfilippo would go on to order a magnificent wall tomb completed in 1467. For more on the testament and tomb commission see Luca Boschetto, “Letteratura, arte e politica nella Firenze del Quattrocento. La collaborazione tra Vespasiano e Manetti per l’Oratio funebris di Giannozzo Pandolfini.” In Palaeography, Manuscript Illumination and Humanism in Renaissance Italy: Studies in Memory of A. C. de la Mare, edited by Robert Black, Jill Kraye, and Laura Nuvoloni, 23–37. London: The Warburg Institute, 2016, esp. pp. 34-35.
  • [i] Giannozzo is documented in this parish at the death of a young son in 1425, in his father's 1427 catasto declaration, the death of his daughter Maria in 1429, and another unnamed daughter in 1430, at the emancipation of his sons on 25 January 1447, and the writing of his testament of 29 October 1456.
  • [j] With thanks to Francesco Bettarini for these references.