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Memorials

S. Croce 117 tomb of Giovanni di Salvestro detto Unghero and descendants

Situated In

friary of S. Croce -- chiesa -- right aisle

Rosselli Number	117.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	in situ
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	frn
Tomb Form	frn
Liturgical Orientation	frn
Length	2.94
Width	1.5
Documented Types	ammattonata lapida
Component Parts	slab border Ornamental areas of distinct pattern, material, color, or shape around the edge or boundary of something. With regard specifically to tapestries, refers to the areas around the central field outside the inner guard and within the guard that edges the outer sides of the tapestry. For the narrow surfaces showing the 'thickness' or smallest dimension of thin, flat objects, as distinguished from the broad surfaces, see "edges (object components)."
Decorative Elements
Material	marble
Database ID	11363

Dates

by 1439 a

Inscriptions (1 total)

• S. IOhannIS • thomasi • de SIlveStrIS • ⅃ • deScendentIum

The tomb of Giovanni di Tommaso from the Silvestri family and of his descendants

Individuals (4 total)

Salvestri, Salvestro di Giovanni di Tommaso di Salvestro b		between 1433 and 1439
Salvestri, Niccolò di Giovanni di Tommaso di Salvestro		by 1439
Salvestri, Giovanni di Tommaso di Salvestro (detto Unghero)		circa 1439 to present
Salvestri, Giovanni di Tommaso di Salvestro (detto Unghero)

Groups (1 total)

circa 1439 to present

Related Memorials (1 total)

S. Croce 116 Jacopo di Lodovico Schiattesi 1423:

Sources (6 total)

R. Iacopino, Le lapidi terragne di Santa Croce, II, 1418-1488	pp. 334-5
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 16v
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 307
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy)	fol. 52v
D. S. Pines, “Tomb Slabs of Santa Croce”, Columbia University	pp. 202-5
E. Giurescu, Trecento Family Chapels	pp. 57

Notes

[a] After the Salvestri ceded their rights to the family chapel in the transept to the Giugni, they acquired an unfinished grave in the aisle of Santa Croce. By 1439 they had finished it with a decorated marble slab dedicated to their father.
[b] The family tomb was not finished at the time of the 1439 sepoltuario