Memorials

S. Croce cemetery 108 Benincasa di Manetto and sons

Rosselli Number	108.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	moved
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	with wall component(s)
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	unk
Documented Types	sepoltura muricciuolo
Component Parts
Decorative Elements	shield shield-like motif, with a form combining oval and triangular elements, typically having three sides, often rounded, with the form being wider at the top and tapering to a point at the bottom; often elaborated with strap-work, scrolls, and mantling Alternate Names: shield of arms Getty ID: 300247394
Material
Database ID	11495

1331 a
circa 1780s (date is approximate) to circa 1800s (date is approximate) b

[S] BEnIChASA MA / ETTI & FILIORV

The tomb of Benincasa di Manetto and of his sons

della Camera, Benincasa di Manetto		from 1331 through the 1770s
Ristoro di Naldo (speziale)		by 1439	c

from 1331 through the 1770s

S. Croce cemetery 107 Salvestro di Giovanni da Quona
S. Croce cemetery 109 Bonaccorso di M. Bernardo 1331:

Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali	rec. 0900295189
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 9, no. 108
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 390, no. 108
ASF, Manoscritti, 252, Priorista Mariani V	fol. 1128v
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy)	fol. 25v, no. 108
S. Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 446, no. 108

[a] The sources note the year 1331 at the entry for Benincasa di Manetto's cemetery tomb, but it does not appear in the inscription on the surviving fragment.
[b] The tomb marker is catalogued in the online Catalogo Generale di Beni Culturali without any indication that it came from Santa Croce, only noting that it is now private property.
[c] The sources do not make clear whether Ristoro di Naldo inherited or purchased rights to the tomb honoring Benincasa di Manetto. Benincasa's son Nastagio (d. ca. 1411) had his own tomb at the foot of a chapel he may have endowed in the parish church of Sant'Apollinare that he left to the Compagnia del Bigallo, suggesting he was last in the della Camera family line. It is thus quite likely that the apothecary Ristoro di Naldo was not a relative but had purchased rights to Benincasa's cemetery tomb, which for reasons unknown his son Nastagio had decided not to use.