Inscriptions

Inscription #1960, Chiesa Nuova 1a Cappella dell'Annunciazione

Diplomatic Transcription

ANNVNCIATE VIRGINI / ALEXANDER ET HORATIVS RVSPOLI / FRATRES FLORENTINI / SACELLVM HOC A FVNDAMENTIS ERECTVM / ORNATVM AC DOTATVM•D D• / HICQ• BARTHOLOMEO PRI DEFVNCTO / ET SIBI AC POSTERIS / SEPVLCHRVM CONSTITVERVNT / A S MDXCI

Critical Transcription

Annunciat(a)e Virgini Alexander et Horatius Ruspoli fratres Florentini sacellum hoc a fundamentis erectum ornatum ac dotatum D(ono) D(ederunt) hicque Bartholomeo p(at)ri defuncto et sibi ac posteris sepulchrum constituerunt A(nno) S(alutis) MDXCI

Regularized Transcription

Annunciatae Virgini Alexander et Horatius Ruspoli fratres Florentini sacellum hoc a fundamentis erectum ornatum ac dotatum dono dederunt hicque Bartholomeo patri defuncto et sibi ac posteris sepulchrum constituerunt Anno Salutis MDXCI

Translation

For the Annunciate Virgin, Alessandro and Orazio Ruspoli, Florentine brothers, gave this shrine erected from its foundation, decorated, and endowed as a gift and set up this tomb for their dead father and for themselves and their descendants in the year of salvation 1591