Memorials

S. Jacopo soprarno 12b sepoltura Ser Antonio Bartolommei

Situated In

S. Jacopo Soprarno -- chiesa di S. Jacopo -- nave verso il Ponte vecchio

Rosselli Number	12.0
Memorial Type
Status	extant
Current Repository	moved
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	no additional components
Tomb Form	round
Liturgical Orientation	unk
Documented Types	sepoltura
Component Parts	cover
Decorative Elements
Database ID	13125

Dates

later fifteenth century a

Inscriptions (1 total)

1842

•Ꞩ • Ꞩ ANTONII• Ꞩ • BAPTISTE BAR MCANCELL E SVOR•DE

The tomb of ser Antonio di ser Battista Bartolomei, Chancellor of the Mercanzia, and of his own descendants.

Individuals (2 total)

Bartolommei, Antonio (ser) di S. Battista di Antonio di M. Bartolomeo di Smeduccio		after July 31st, 1476 b
Bartolommei, Antonio (ser) di S. Battista di Antonio di M. Bartolomeo di Smeduccio		after 1476 to present

Groups (1 total)

Bartolommei

after 1476 to present

Related Memorials (2 total)

S. Jacopo soprarno 12a Altare de Bartolommei
S. Jacopo soprarno 36 Luca di Fruosino da Panzano:

Sources (3 total)

ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 174, no. 12
ASF, Manoscritti, 622, Sep. Quart. S. Spirito + SMM	fol. 59
S. Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, autograph	pp. 179, no. 12

Notes

[a] Ser Antonio was named cancelliere della Mercanzia (secretary of the merchant tribunal) for life on 31 July 1476, an honor he chose to include in his tomb's inscription. Given the tomb's lack of date, it is likely that S. Antonio commissioned the monument and saw it installed.
[b] Luca Boschetto notes that Ser Antonio proudly recorded his election as Mercanzia Chancellor for life on 31 July 1476 in his Libro di ricordi found in ASFi, Acquisti e Doni, 11 (ins. 1), fol. 19r. See Boschetto, “‘Domus Veritatis et Aequitatis’. Il Tribunale della Mercanzia e la risoluzione delle controversie commerciali a Firenze nell’età Laurenziana.” In Management and Resolution of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe, edited by Jill Kraye, Marc Laureys, and David A. Lines, 77–107 (Bonn: V&R Unipress, 2023), p. 89n30.

This pride extended to ser Antonio's tomb in S. Jacopo sopr'Arno, whose inscription included his title M(ercantiae) Cancell(arii), indicating that Ser Antonio commissioned the tomb himself after receiving this office. Oddly, the known sepoltuari did not transcribe the inscription correctly, suggesting that by the late sixteenth century and certainly by Stefano Rosselli's day (1650-57), the abbreviation "M. Cancell." was unrecognizable to them. The mistakes also suggest that they were copying from other written sources and not the monument itself. The anonymous sepoltuario wrote: "S. S. Antonij et Batiste Bartolomei Marca et suorum descen," while Rosselli omitted the office and inserted words that are not present: "S. S. Antonij nelo, et Baptiste Bartholomei, et suorum Descend:" (autograph, p. 179, no. 12).