console, Arte dei Medici e Speziali (consul, Doctors and Spicers Guild)
One of six consuls governing the Doctors and Spicers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. The guild included painters, perfumers, and barbers.
Online Tratte Code: 26
Major Guild
January 1st, 1413 to April 30th, 1413
console, Arte dei Medici e Speziali (consul, Doctors and Spicers Guild)
One of six consuls governing the Doctors and Spicers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. The guild included painters, perfumers, and barbers.
Online Tratte Code: 26
Major Guild
May 1st, 1415 to August 31st, 1415
console, Arte dei Medici e Speziali (consul, Doctors and Spicers Guild)
One of six consuls governing the Doctors and Spicers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. The guild included painters, perfumers, and barbers.
Online Tratte Code: 26
Major Guild
May 1st, 1417 to August 31st, 1417
console, Arte dei Medici e Speziali (consul, Doctors and Spicers Guild)
One of six consuls governing the Doctors and Spicers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. The guild included painters, perfumers, and barbers.
Online Tratte Code: 26
Major Guild
January 1st, 1419 to April 30th, 1419
console, Arte dei Medici e Speziali (consul, Doctors and Spicers Guild)
One of six consuls governing the Doctors and Spicers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. The guild included painters, perfumers, and barbers.
Online Tratte Code: 26
Major Guild
January 1st, 1421 to April 30th, 1421
console, Arte dei Medici e Speziali (consul, Doctors and Spicers Guild)
One of six consuls governing the Doctors and Spicers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. The guild included painters, perfumers, and barbers.
Online Tratte Code: 26
Major Guild
September 1st, 1429 to December 31st, 1429
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
July 1st, 1430 to August 31st, 1430
Mercanzia (Mercanzia)
Established in 1308, a Florentine association with jurisdiction over commercial affairs, initially governed by representatives of five major guilds—the Merchants, Bankers, Wool, Silk, and Doctors and Apothecaries—with a representative of the minor guilds added in 1372.
Online Tratte Code: 6
Other
October 1st, 1432 to December 31st, 1432
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, 1433 to September 14th, 1433
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
March 1st, 1435 to April 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
January 7th, 1436 to May 6th, 1436
Mercanzia (Mercanzia)
Established in 1308, a Florentine association with jurisdiction over commercial affairs, initially governed by representatives of five major guilds—the Merchants, Bankers, Wool, Silk, and Doctors and Apothecaries—with a representative of the minor guilds added in 1372.
Online Tratte Code: 6
Other
October 1st, 1439 to December 31st, 1439
Gonfaloniere di Giustizia (Standard-bearer of Justice)
Established in 1293, the Standard-bearer of Justice was the highest-ranking magistrate in the Signoria. Like all officers in the Tre Maggiori, he had to be a guild member in good standing but could be elected from any <i>sestiere</i> or quarter.
individual has matriculated, joined, or been named to this group, including one who has joined a monastery, friary, or convent as a member or third order
circa 1411 (date is approximate) to circa 1451 (date is approximate)
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.
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] Maestro Galileo reported his age as 57 in his 1427 catasto, suggesting a birth year of 1370. Rita Iacopino states that he was born in 1368, but his age was recorded by tratte officials in 1429 as 45, rendering a birth year of 1384.
[b] Though Rita Iacopino reports maestro Galileo's death in 1460, a drawing on December 29th, 1451 for the office of Standard-bearer of Justice recorded that he had died by that date.
[c] Maestro Galileo declared his residence, which neighbored that of his brother Michele, in the parish of San Pulinari in his 1427 catasto declaration.
