Memorials

S. Croce cemetery 260 Maso di Unganello and his sons 1298

Rosselli Number	260.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	in situ
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	with wall component(s)
Tomb Form	rectangular
Liturgical Orientation	N
Height	55.0
Width	49.0
Documented Types	sepoltura
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	Carrara marble type of marble quarried in the area around Carrara, Tuscany, Italy (Luna in antiquity), characterized by a fine, compact grain and varies in color from pure white to creamy white, sometimes with a bluish tinge; a favorite stone of sculptors from antiquity to the present, including Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) Getty ID: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300011576
Database ID	11590

1298 a

inscription

+⋮S.EPULCRU⋮MASI / UNGhAnELLI⋮EFILIO4 / AnnO⋮DPI⋮M⋮CCLXXXXVUI [sic]

The tomb of Maso di Unganello and of his sons in the year of the Lord 1298

Unganelli, Maso di Unganello		1298 to present
Unganelli, Francesco di Maso di Unganello

S. Croce cemetery 241 Maso Unganelli and his sons b
S. Croce cemetery 259 nessuno
S. Croce cemetery 261 Tano di Niccolò Franchi:

AOSC, 47, Sepoltuario del 1439 (copia)	pp. 49, no. 10
ASF, Manoscritti, 618, Sep. S. Croce 1596 (copy)	fol. 30v, no. 10
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 400, no. 260
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 10v, no. 10
ASF, Manoscritti, 249, Priorista Mariani II	fol. 454v
Stefano Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 459, no. 260

[a] The nineteenth-century copy of the 1439 sepoltuario records 1298 while Stefano Rosselli transcribed MCCCLXXXXIIII (1294). The stone seems to indicate MCCCLXXXXVIII
[b] A tomb dedicated to Maso Unganelli and his sons appears twice in all the sepoltuari without indicating that it had been moved from one portion of the cemetery to the other. While it seems very unlikely that he installed two tombs with the same inscription, we cannot discount that he did, perhaps one for the women of his clan and one for the men as was common among elites in the dugento and trecento. However, these tombs were specific in identifying the gender of their intended burials.