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
named in memorial inscription and/or represented by coat of arms
Alternate Names: dedicatee
Getty ID: 300404867
circa 1298 (date is approximate) to circa 1934 (date is approximate)
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
circa 1299 (date is approximate) to circa 1348 (date is approximate)
possible
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
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
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
[a] Likely installed soon after the construction of Santa Croce began, the earliest Pazzi family tomb at the friary names Littifredi d'Uguccione di Ranieri Pazzi, who appears in an act of 1254, as cited by Pompeo Litta. Litta records that Littifredi's son Lapo was dead before 1311 and that another son Giovanni, known as Dolce, was still alive in 1322 when he was serving his third term as Capitano di Orsanmichele. We know that a third son, Ranieri, was alive in 1288. The oldest known record of the tomb, from a section of the 1439 register dated 1298, indicates that the Pazzi tomb belonged to and/or honored Ranieri di Littifredi. (It is not known whether the entries in the 1439 sepoltuario are transcriptions of lost inscriptions or merely documentation of the tomb's owner around the turn of the fourteenth century.) The 1596 register instead notes that the tomb had been set aside for the generic "sons of Littifredi," which would include Lapo, Dolce, Ranieri, and a fourth brother, Pazzino.
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 holders of the tomb's patronage rights were identified as Andrea di M. Guglielmo Pazzi and the sons of Poldo di Leopoldo Pazzi, who were sixth cousins once removed. It is unclear why an additional sixth cousin once removed, Ghinozzo di Luigi di Ghinozzo, was not also part of this inheritance.
[b] A discrepancy among the sepoltuari complicates the identification of this tomb’s honoree. The sepoltuario of 1439 (ASFi 619) includes a small gathering of pages dated 1298. This list records the tomb as belonging to “Rinieri lictifredi de pazziis.” 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.). While Pompeo Litta includes only Lapo and Giovanni il Dolce as sons of Littifredi in his genealogy of the family, the tree found in the Carte Mariani Dei records two additional brothers, Ranieri and Pazzino. The name Littifredi itself appears to be unique within the Pazzi family.
Stefano Rosselli initially copied the 1596 wording before crossing out “De figli” and replacing it with “Rainerij.” Given these conflicting records, the tomb is here assigned to Ranieri, following the earliest surviving record from Santa Croce and Rosselli's emendation.
[c] The sepoltuario records for the crypt of Santa Croce may simply record those who held patronage rights to the tombs rather than transcribe inscriptions from their markers. Discrepancy in the sources attribute this tomb to Ranieri or to the more generic "sons of Littifredi," but given that the earliest record names Ranieri (dated 1298), it seems almost certain that the tomb was his.
[d] If the tomb was set up by Pazzino's brother Ranieri, as seems likely, it is possible that the grave was intended only for his direct descendants and Pazzino would thus have been buried elsewhere.
[e] If the tomb was set up by Lapo's brother Ranieri, as seems likely, it is possible that the grave was intended only for his direct descendants and Lapo would thus have been buried elsewhere.
[f] Ranieri's only son did not produce any heirs, thus beginning the complicated route of the tomb's patronage rights that would eventually lead to the descendants of Rainieri's third cousins as holders of patronage rights in 1440.
[g] If the tomb was set up by Dolce's brother Ranieri, as seems likely, it is possible that the grave was intended only for his direct descendants and Dolce would have thus been buried elsewhere.
[h] 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.
