Memorials

Badia 053a.1 Ghiberti

Situated In

Badia Fiorentina -- chiesa di Arnolfo -- north aisle

Rosselli Number	53.0
Memorial Type
Status	transferred
Current Repository	na
Primary Installation	floor
Secondary Installation	with wall component(s)
Tomb Form	unk
Liturgical Orientation	unk
Documented Types	sepoltura tassello
Component Parts
Decorative Elements	bird a
Database ID	30869

Dates

Maybe 1330 (date is uncertain) b
July 17th, 1520 c
before November 25th, 1568 d

Individuals (5 total)

Ghiberti, Giovanni di Ghiberto di Neri e	July 15th, 1363
Bartolomea (mona) (uxor Jacopo Ghiberti)	June 22nd, 1507
Altoviti, Raffaello	March 12th, 1518	f
Ghiberti, Angioletta (uxor Raffaello Altoviti)	July 17th, 1520	g
Casanova, Pandolfo (messer) (dottore)	before November 25th, 1568

Groups (3 total)

Ghiberti	circa 1360s (date is approximate) to July 17th, 1520	h
Altoviti	July 17th, 1520 to circa 1568 (date is approximate) i	j
Casanova	before November 25th, 1568	k

Related Memorials (5 total)

Badia 002a Cappella del Crocifisso
Badia 006a Cappella di S. Maria Maddalena de Covoni
Badia 007 memorial to M. Giannozzo Pandolfini
Badia 050.2 the sons of Giachinotto Boscoli
Badia 103 Pandolfo Casanova: l	before November 25th, 1568

Sources (5 total)

BNCF, Conv. Soppr. da Ord., Badia, 2 (str. 1), Libro dei Defunti	fol. 4, 7v, 29, 133v
ASF, Diplomatico	S. Maria degli Angioli (camaldolesi), Firenze, 1363 Giugno 5.
ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy)	pp. 615, no. 53
ASF, Manoscritti, 628, Sepoltuari da Francesco della Foresta	fol. 10, no. 52
ASF, Manoscritti, 250, Priorista Mariani III	fol. 511v

Notes

[a] In their description of the Cafferecci da Volterra tomb, della Foresta and Rosselli identify a marker carrying an eagle, presumably in the wall, as the remnant of the Ghiberti family tomb which was inherited by the Altoviti in 1520 and transferred to the Casanova around 1568.
[b] A Ghiberti tomb was certainly in the right aisle of the church by June 5th, 1363 when Giovanni di Ghiberto Ghiberti requested burial in the Badia in his testament. Given the extensive chapel and tomb installation from the 1330s to the 1350s, it is likely that the Ghiberti secured their burial spot then.
[c] The tomb passed to the Altoviti through the marriage of Agnioletta Ghiberti, who died on July 17th, 1520.
[d] Messer Pandolfo Casanova acquired the Ghiberti tomb prior to the death of his son who was buried in it on November 25th, 1568.
[e] In his testament dated May 29th, 1361, Giovanni Ghiberti requested burial in the Badia of Florence, suggesting that his family's tomb was extant from before that time. He left funds to his parish churches of S. Michele in Palchetto, his home parish, and S.Cristoforo, where a kinsman Giovanni di Doffo Ghiberti was rector, to the hospital of S. Maria Nuova, and to the monastery of S. Maria degli Angeli where his brother Michele had professed in 1348.
[f] The monks did not record where Raffaello Altoviti was buried on March 12th, 1517 (o.s.), but given that the Altoviti and Ghiberti were related by marriage, and that the family did not have another tomb in the church, he was likely placed in the Ghiberti tomb, which passed to the Altoviti at the death of Agnoletta Ghiberti Altoviti in 1520.
[g] The Ghiberti tomb passed to the Altoviti through her marriage and death.
[h] It is not known when the Ghiberti installed their family tomb in the Badia, but Giovanni di Ghiberto was buried in it in 1363. In 1520, the last of the Ghiberti, mona Agnoletta Altoviti, was laid to rest in the tomb, after which it passed to her Altoviti relatives.
[i] The tomb had certainly been conceded to the Casanova family by November 25th, 1568 when the son of messer Pandolfo Casanova, who had acquired rights to the tomb, was buried in it. At that time it was still known as the "sepoltura de Ghiberti ereditata dagli Altoviti."
[j] According to the Badia's Libro dei defunti, the Ghiberti tomb passed to the Altoviti thanks to the marriage of Agnoletta Ghiberti to an Altoviti.
[k] The jurist messer Pandolfo Casanova acquired the tomb, still known as the "sepoltura de Ghiberti ereditata dagli Altoviti," prior to burying his son in it on November 25th, 1568.
[l] Messer Pandolfo Casanova acquired the Ghiberti tomb prior to the death of his son who was buried in it on November 25th, 1568.