person who receives rights to and responsibility for a memorial through inheritance
Alternate Names: descendant; inheritor
Getty ID: 300258972
after January 11th, 1312
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
January 11th, 1312 (year 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
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 January 11th, 1312
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 January 11th, 1312
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 January 11th, 1312
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 January 11th, 1312
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 January 11th, 1312
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 January 11th, 1312
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 January 11th, 1312
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
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
[b] Rita Iacopino has dated the tomb slab's restoration to the 1460s based on stylistic grounds.
[c] The 1596 sepoltuario and all that follow indicate that the tomb was dedicated to messer Pazzino Pazzi, who was murdered on 10 January 1312 and given a lavish state funeral. The 1439 register, however, names Jacopo di M. Pazzino piovano. Given that he was long dead in 1439, it is likely that this record indicates his patronage.
[d] Giovanni Villani recounts how when the news reached Florence of the death of messer Pazzino while hunting, they brought his body to the Palazzo della Signoria. These events occurred on January 11th, 1312, but Villani makes no mention of when or where Pazzino was buried.
[e] Though the inscription is mostly abraded, and the tomb was refashioned in the 1460s, the tomb honoring messer Pazzino is still in the right transept.
[f] Howard Saalman postulated that Andrea was buried in the tomb dedicated to Pazzino Pazzi in the transept of Santa Croce, arguing that his new chapel "was just beginning to rise" when Andrea died on 19 October 1445. Given that gravedigger records report his burial in Santa Croce on the day after his death, Saalman argued that he was not buried in the worksite of his new chapel but rather in Pazzino's transept tomb.
A sepoltuario record dated around 1440 or 1441, and copied in the sepoltuario of 1596, does indeed indicate that Andrea was known to the friars as the owner of burial rights in Pazzino's tomb, even though he was not a direct descendant but rather his third cousin three times removed, and thus was a sixth cousin of his great-grandson Poldo.
Rights to a second Pazzi tomb in the crypt and dedicated to the sons of Littifredi d'Uguccione Pazzi were also listed as belonging to Andrea together with Poldo's sons Geri and Alamanno.
A trio of Pazzi family tombs, an arca and two graves reserved for the descendants of fourth cousins messers Francesco di M. Pazzino and Simone di Ranieri de' Pazzi at the head of the cloister where Andrea would build his chapel, was not listed with any heirs, though it seems unlikely that burial rights did not pass to one or more other branches of the family when the lines of Francesco and Simone died out.
In other words, Andrea certainly had the right to choose burial in the transept or the crypt, and very likely could have requested burial in the cloister arca as well. Instead, he opted to build a new chapter room for the friars, whose chancel would also serve as a family burial chapel. Andrea's chapel would be the first burial site installed in Santa Croce for members of Andrea's direct line stemming from Schiatta di Pazzo de'Pazzi. Descendants of Schiatta's brothers Ranieri and Uguccione were responsible for all other Pazzi memorials at the friary.
See Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings (Penn State Press, 1993), 233–34.
We thank Emma Iadanza for drawing our attention to this reference and for generously discussing her ongoing research into Andrea's chapel at Santa Croce and the broader context of Pazzi family patronage.
