named in memorial inscription and/or represented by coat of arms
Alternate Names: dedicatee
Getty ID: 300404867
circa 1298 (date is approximate) to 1934
surmised
presumed role based on incomplete evidence; for burials, we know the burial is in this church, we think it is in this tomb; for patronage and other relationships, there is evidence to suggest the connection, but it has not been confirmed
responsible for new memorial or its enhancement/renovation
Alternate Names: patron; donor; founder
Getty ID: 300400903
circa 1300 (date is approximate)
likely
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
responsible for new memorial or its enhancement/renovation
Alternate Names: patron; donor; founder
Getty ID: 300400903
circa 1300 (date is approximate)
likely
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
maybe held this role; for burials, based on ancestry and/or generic inscription reference, the individual would have had burial rights, but no evidence has been found to confirm burial here
person who receives rights to and responsibility for a memorial through inheritance
Alternate Names: descendant; inheritor
Getty ID: 300258972
after 1322
surmised
presumed role based on incomplete evidence; for burials, we know the burial is in this church, we think it is in this tomb; for patronage and other relationships, there is evidence to suggest the connection, but it has not been confirmed
person who receives rights to and responsibility for a memorial through inheritance
Alternate Names: descendant; inheritor
Getty ID: 300258972
after 1322
surmised
presumed role based on incomplete evidence; for burials, we know the burial is in this church, we think it is in this tomb; for patronage and other relationships, there is evidence to suggest the connection, but it has not been confirmed
maybe held this role; for burials, based on ancestry and/or generic inscription reference, the individual would have had burial rights, but no evidence has been found to confirm burial here
[a] Likely installed soon after the construction of Santa Croce began, the earliest Pazzi family tomb at the friary can be traced to Littifredi d'Uguccione di Ranieri Pazzi, who appears in an act of 1254, as cited by Pompeo Litta. His son Lapo was dead before 1311, while his other son Giovanni, known as il Dolce, was still alive in 1322, when he was serving his third term as Capitano di Orsanmichele. Some registers indicate that the Pazzi tomb in the crypt had been set aside for the generic "sons of Littifredi," while others name Ranieri, a third, otherwise untraced son of Littifredi, as the tomb's honoree. Littifredi was the grandson of Ranieri di Pazzo, head of one of the three branches of the Pazzi family, and he seems to be the only member of the family by that name in the entire lineage. What is certain is that the descendants of Littifredi disappear from the record by the 1430s, leaving the tomb set aside for his branch of the Pazzi family without a direct male heir. Thus, in a register dated 1441 (known only through reference to it in 1596), the owners of the tomb were named as Andrea di M. Guglielmo Pazzi and the sons of Poldo di Leopoldo Pazzi, his sixth cousins once removed.
[b] A discrepancy among the sepoltuari complicates the identification of this tomb’s honoree. The sepoltuario of 1439 (ASFi 619) records it as the tomb of “Rinieri lictifredi de pazziis.” Littifredi di Uguccione di Rinieri Pazzi is known to have had two sons, Lapo and Giovanni il Dolce. Pompeo Litta includes no Rinieri di Littifredi in his genealogy of the family, although the tree found in the Carte Mariani Dei records such a name, perhaps drawing on the sepoltuario of 1439. The name Littifredi itself appears to be unique within the Pazzi family. By contrast, the sepoltuario of 1596 lists the tomb as belonging to “the sons of Littifredi de’ Pazzi and their heirs” (de figli di Littifredi de Pazzis e suor. eredu.). Stefano Rosselli initially followed this reading before crossing out “De figli” and replacing it with “Rainerij.” Given these conflicting records, the tomb is here assigned to the “sons of Littifredi,” until and unless further evidence emerges that Littifredi had a third son named after his grandfather.
[c] The Priorista Mariani noted that the coat of arms on this tomb had eleven small crosses around the pair of dolphins rather than only five.
