del Beccuto, Deo di Deo di Vanni di Castello di Lippo
Description
According to a family tree in the Carte Mariani Dei, Deo was the son of his father's second wife and the only male to have offspring. His total wealth as declared in his 1427 catasto was 10,101 florins, and he was head of a twelve-person household. In that year he went as Deo di Deo Becchuti.
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, 1413 to December 31st, 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
January 1st, 1416 to April 30th, 1416
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, 1420 to April 30th, 1420
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, 1421 to December 31st, 1421
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
November 1st, 1427 to December 31st, 1427
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
January 1st, 1430 to March 31st, 1430
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, 1430 to December 31st, 1430
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, 1430 to January 6th, 1431
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, 1431 to December 31st, 1431
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.
probably had this role; for burials, the individual is owner/heir, and/or spouse, parent, or child is interred here; no conflicting evidence that the person is buried elsewhere
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 1391 (date is approximate) to circa 1433 (date is approximate) e
[a] Deo reported his age as 50 in his 1427 catasto declaration and again when he registered his birth with tratte officials. The family tree in the Carte Mariani Dei gives 1377 as his birth year.
[b] Deo was drawn for but not seated in the Mercanzia on March 20th, 1433.
[c] Deo di Vanni dedicated the altar and tomb for himself and his descendants, making it likely that his son and heir Deo was buried in it. Given that Deo listed his responsibilities for funding the chapel in his 1427 catasto declaration, the use of this tomb seems almost certain.
[d] The chapel is listed among Deo di Deo's expenses in his 1427 catasto declaration that stemmed from honoring his father's will in 1386. ASFi, Catasto, 79, fol. 195
[e] Deo's name was first placed in the election purse for San Giovanni Drago in 1391, and he was last drawn for office to represent the guild to the Mercanzia in late March 1433, but he was not seated at the time. His death date is not currently known.
